Re: [Rd] Licence for datasets in a R-package

[Spencer Graves]

For a data set that are available on the web, one can write a function 
to download it.  This can be done either because of license issues or 
because the database changes, and you might like to get the latest 
version.  One example is fda::readHMD.  The Ecfun package contains many 
other examples.  The latter includes readCookPVI, 
readFinancialCrisisFiles, readNIPA, readUShouse, readUSsenate, 
readUSstateAbbreviations, and testURLs.


   Hope this helps.
   Spencer


On 7/22/2014 12:46 AM, Gionata Bocci wrote:
> Thank you all very much for your (extremely) prompt reply.
> If datasets' authors won't agree on releasing their data under GPL, I'll
> follow G. Grothendieck suggestion and build a ad-hoc data-package.
> Thanks,
>
> Gionata.
>
>
>
> 2014-07-21 20:04 GMT+02:00 Gábor Csárdi :
>
>> On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 1:56 PM, Gabor Grothendieck
>>  wrote:
>>> On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 12:54 PM, Gábor Csárdi 
>> wrote:
 In practice, CRAN maintainers do not allow multiple licenses for parts
 of the same package. At least they did not for my package a couple of
 months ago.

>>> If that is the case then you could put your data files in a separate
>>> package from the code with one depending on the other.
>> Yes, and sometimes this even makes sense, as the data does not change
>> often.
>>
>> This was, however, a package with several data sets, accompanying a
>> book. So this would have been quite cumbersome.
>>
>> Gabor
>>
>>> --
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>>> tel: 1-877-GKX-GROUP
>>> email: ggrothendieck at gmail.com
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Re: [Rd] Licence for datasets in a R-package

[Gionata Bocci]

Thank you all very much for your (extremely) prompt reply.
If datasets' authors won't agree on releasing their data under GPL, I'll
follow G. Grothendieck suggestion and build a ad-hoc data-package.
Thanks,

Gionata.



2014-07-21 20:04 GMT+02:00 Gábor Csárdi :

> On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 1:56 PM, Gabor Grothendieck
>  wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 12:54 PM, Gábor Csárdi 
> wrote:
> >> In practice, CRAN maintainers do not allow multiple licenses for parts
> >> of the same package. At least they did not for my package a couple of
> >> months ago.
> >>
> >
> > If that is the case then you could put your data files in a separate
> > package from the code with one depending on the other.
>
> Yes, and sometimes this even makes sense, as the data does not change
> often.
>
> This was, however, a package with several data sets, accompanying a
> book. So this would have been quite cumbersome.
>
> Gabor
>
> >
> > --
> > Statistics & Software Consulting
> > GKX Group, GKX Associates Inc.
> > tel: 1-877-GKX-GROUP
> > email: ggrothendieck at gmail.com
>

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Re: [Rd] Licence for datasets in a R-package

[Gábor Csárdi]

On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 1:56 PM, Gabor Grothendieck
 wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 12:54 PM, Gábor Csárdi  wrote:
>> In practice, CRAN maintainers do not allow multiple licenses for parts
>> of the same package. At least they did not for my package a couple of
>> months ago.
>>
>
> If that is the case then you could put your data files in a separate
> package from the code with one depending on the other.

Yes, and sometimes this even makes sense, as the data does not change often.

This was, however, a package with several data sets, accompanying a
book. So this would have been quite cumbersome.

Gabor

>
> --
> Statistics & Software Consulting
> GKX Group, GKX Associates Inc.
> tel: 1-877-GKX-GROUP
> email: ggrothendieck at gmail.com

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Re: [Rd] Licence for datasets in a R-package

[Gabor Grothendieck]

On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 12:54 PM, Gábor Csárdi  wrote:
> In practice, CRAN maintainers do not allow multiple licenses for parts
> of the same package. At least they did not for my package a couple of
> months ago.
>

If that is the case then you could put your data files in a separate
package from the code with one depending on the other.

-- 
Statistics & Software Consulting
GKX Group, GKX Associates Inc.
tel: 1-877-GKX-GROUP
email: ggrothendieck at gmail.com

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Re: [Rd] Licence for datasets in a R-package

[Gábor Csárdi]

On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 12:49 PM, Duncan Murdoch
 wrote:
[...]
> If you are not distributing the package to anyone else, you can ignore the
> warning about the bad license field.
>
> If you plan to distribute it on a public repository, you should ask the
> policies of the repository to find out what to do about this. CRAN policies
> are listed at http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/policies.html.  There's
> a link from there to the list of acceptable licenses, and it includes some
> CC licenses.
>
> If some parts of the package are licensed one way and others are licensed in
> another way, you'll probably need a COPYRIGHTS file to describe it.

In practice, CRAN maintainers do not allow multiple licenses for parts
of the same package. At least they did not for my package a couple of
months ago.

> Other repositories (e.g. Bioconductor, Github) presumably have their own
> policies on this, but I don't know where to find those.

At Github, they do not care, you can do whatever you want (as long as
it is legal, I guess).

Gabor

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Re: [Rd] Licence for datasets in a R-package

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 21/07/2014 12:17 PM, Gionata Bocci wrote:

  Dear List,

I am building a R package which collects ecological data about plant
species from both remote (web) databases and locally stored rda files
(datasets): these "local rda files" are derived from publicly available
databases for which no "official" licenses are provided; I was told by the
creators of these databases that users can use such data provided that the
correct bibliographic reference is always used (the package is already
reminding the users about the correct citation(s) to use). I thought a
CC-by licence would suit this need, thus I am posting here to ask if:

  1) It is possible to distribute these datasets as rda files within my
package (which will be released as GPL=>2, thus two different licences will
be needed for the package)
  2) If a CC-by licence for these datasets could be included in the
DESCRIPTION file, using something like "License: CC-by datasets.rda" for
each rda file (this is based on this stackoverflow thread
, but CC-by is not among the LICENSES
cited in http://www.r-project.org/Licenses/): I've already tried to do
this, but, as a consequence, the "R check" raises a warning.

I am aware that this is more a licensing issue then a programming
problem, but I went through the R FAQ, "Writing R Extensions" and R-devel
but was not able to sort this problem out (so, please ignore this post if
you find it OT).
I hope the question is not too messy (this is my first time on R-devel).
Many thanks for any help you may provide,


If you are not distributing the package to anyone else, you can ignore 
the warning about the bad license field.


If you plan to distribute it on a public repository, you should ask the 
policies of the repository to find out what to do about this. CRAN 
policies are listed at 
http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/policies.html.  There's a link 
from there to the list of acceptable licenses, and it includes some CC 
licenses.


If some parts of the package are licensed one way and others are 
licensed in another way, you'll probably need a COPYRIGHTS file to 
describe it.


Other repositories (e.g. Bioconductor, Github) presumably have their own 
policies on this, but I don't know where to find those.


Duncan Murdoch

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[Rd] Licence for datasets in a R-package

[Gionata Bocci]

 Dear List,

   I am building a R package which collects ecological data about plant
species from both remote (web) databases and locally stored rda files
(datasets): these "local rda files" are derived from publicly available
databases for which no "official" licenses are provided; I was told by the
creators of these databases that users can use such data provided that the
correct bibliographic reference is always used (the package is already
reminding the users about the correct citation(s) to use). I thought a
CC-by licence would suit this need, thus I am posting here to ask if:

 1) It is possible to distribute these datasets as rda files within my
package (which will be released as GPL=>2, thus two different licences will
be needed for the package)
 2) If a CC-by licence for these datasets could be included in the
DESCRIPTION file, using something like "License: CC-by datasets.rda" for
each rda file (this is based on this stackoverflow thread
, but CC-by is not among the LICENSES
cited in http://www.r-project.org/Licenses/): I've already tried to do
this, but, as a consequence, the "R check" raises a warning.

   I am aware that this is more a licensing issue then a programming
problem, but I went through the R FAQ, "Writing R Extensions" and R-devel
but was not able to sort this problem out (so, please ignore this post if
you find it OT).
   I hope the question is not too messy (this is my first time on R-devel).
   Many thanks for any help you may provide,


Gionata Bocci.

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