Hi Henrik,
People have been wrong on the internet before, and they continue to do so. Just because someone made a claim (which you and I considered false and without underlying merit), and even when action resulted, does not create "case law". That was simple a mistake being made. [1] The underlying issue is that nobody has shown that a Depends (or these days Imports) implies that the 'importing package' (here your `afex` package) inherits anything from the 'imported package' (here Ben's `lme4`). CRAN has over twenty-two thousand packages. There simply is no cross-pollination of licensing on package being used in this standard way. [2] What matters is that when a package gets onto CRAN is that its license is a suitable, understood and accepted license that is part of the master list CRAN keeps. All that is in the manuals. I will now try to extract myself now from this thread. It really is a flashback to earlier days in that it creates a lot of heat without much light. Cheers, Dirk [1] And having been part of Debian for thirty years I am with you that sometimes it is easier to just make a change to a package or file and move on. That by now means settles the underlying issue. There are simply too many hotheads to debate. [2] As said before, it is difference when a package builds, compiles, links, with an external library. That is the example of virality that matters. Different case though. -- dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | [email protected] ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
