Re: [Rd] License status of CRAN packages

2009-04-24 Thread Kurt Hornik
Ben Goodrich writes: Gabor Grothendieck wrote: On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 4:59 PM, Ben Goodrich goodr...@fas.harvard.edu wrote: Dirk Eddelbuettel edd at debian.org writes: As a non-exhautive list with possible misclassifications, cran2deb currently has these packasges as 'maybe not free'

Re: [Rd] License status of CRAN packages

2009-04-24 Thread Kjetil Halvorsen
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 4:59 PM, Ben Goodrich goodr...@fas.harvard.eduwrote: Dirk Eddelbuettel edd at debian.org writes: As a non-exhautive list with possible misclassifications, cran2deb currently has these packasges as 'maybe not free' and does not build them:

Re: [Rd] License status of CRAN packages

2009-04-24 Thread Kurt Hornik
Kjetil Halvorsen writes: On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 4:59 PM, Ben Goodrich goodr...@fas.harvard.eduwrote: Dirk Eddelbuettel edd at debian.org writes: As a non-exhautive list with possible misclassifications, cran2deb currently has these packasges as 'maybe not free' and does not build them:

Re: [Rd] License status of CRAN packages

2009-04-24 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 24 April 2009 at 10:18, Kjetil Halvorsen wrote: | On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 4:59 PM, Ben Goodrich goodr...@fas.harvard.eduwrote: | | Dirk Eddelbuettel edd at debian.org writes: | As a non-exhautive list with possible misclassifications, cran2deb | currently | has these packasges as 'maybe

Re: [Rd] License status of CRAN packages

2009-04-24 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 11:44 AM, Ben Goodrich goodr...@fas.harvard.edu wrote: Kurt Hornik wrote: AGPL, unfortunately, allows supplements, and hence cannot fully be standardized.  We've been thinking about extending the current scheme to indicate a base license plus supplements, but this is

Re: [Rd] License status of CRAN packages

2009-04-24 Thread Ben Goodrich
Kurt Hornik wrote: AGPL, unfortunately, allows supplements, and hence cannot fully be standardized. We've been thinking about extending the current scheme to indicate a base license plus supplements, but this is still work in progress. This would be helpful. I would just reemphasize that a

Re: [Rd] License status of CRAN packages

2009-04-24 Thread Christophe Dutang
Hi all, I think for the common licences, we should also add BSD licence... for example my pkg randtoolbox (which is currently with incompatible licences) will probably be in a near future with the BSD licence. Anyway I like the idea of two different repositories for GPL like licensed pkg

Re: [Rd] License status of CRAN packages

2009-04-24 Thread Ben Goodrich
I don't have a strong opinion about partitioning the repository, but I don't think partitioning based on whether the license is commonly used for R packages is terribly helpful. AGPL and AGPL + GPL3 are not common licensing schemes for R packages currently, but from the perspective of a useR,

[Rd] License status of CRAN packages

2009-04-23 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
(Subject: renamed as thread hijacked from the ParallelR thread --Dirk) On 23 April 2009 at 14:44, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: | Aside from R there are the add-on packages. | | A frequency table showing the licenses of the CRAN packages indicates | that the all or almost all packages have some

Re: [Rd] License status of CRAN packages

2009-04-23 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 3:08 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel e...@debian.org wrote: (Subject: renamed as thread hijacked from the ParallelR thread   --Dirk) On 23 April 2009 at 14:44, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: | Aside from R there are the add-on packages. | | A frequency table showing the licenses of

Re: [Rd] License status of CRAN packages

2009-04-23 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 23 April 2009 at 15:32, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: | On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 3:08 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel e...@debian.org wrote: | | (Subject: renamed as thread hijacked from the ParallelR thread --Dirk) | | On 23 April 2009 at 14:44, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: | | Aside from R there are

Re: [Rd] License status of CRAN packages

2009-04-23 Thread Marc Schwartz
On Apr 23, 2009, at 3:02 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: On 23 April 2009 at 15:32, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: | On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 3:08 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel e...@debian.org wrote: | | (Subject: renamed as thread hijacked from the ParallelR thread --Dirk) | | On 23 April 2009 at

Re: [Rd] License status of CRAN packages

2009-04-23 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
Of the 31 packages listed: [1] BARD BayesDA CoCo ConvCalendar [5] FAiR PTAk RScaLAPACKRcsdp [9] SDDA SGP alphahull ash [13] asypowcaMassClass gpclibmapproj [17] matlabmclustmclust02

Re: [Rd] License status of CRAN packages

2009-04-23 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
In some other software systems there are separate repositories for free and non-free add-ons. That way its clear what you are downloading yet there are good outlets for both types of software. There has been some discussion of future features that CRAN might have that might make this even easier

Re: [Rd] License status of CRAN packages

2009-04-23 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 23 April 2009 at 15:35, Marc Schwartz wrote: | There is a list of acceptable entries that are defined as part of the | specs in R-exts (see page 4). Perhaps this needs to be tightened a | bit, at least in so far as packages passing R CMD check for the | purpose of inclusion on CRAN. That

Re: [Rd] License status of CRAN packages

2009-04-23 Thread Ben Goodrich
Dirk Eddelbuettel edd at debian.org writes: As a non-exhautive list with possible misclassifications, cran2deb currently has these packasges as 'maybe not free' and does not build them: BARD,BayesDA,CoCo,ConvCalendar,FAiR,PTAk,RScaLAPACK,Rcsdp,SDDA,SGP,

Re: [Rd] License status of CRAN packages

2009-04-23 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 23 April 2009 at 16:35, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: | Of the 31 packages listed: | [1] BARD BayesDA CoCo ConvCalendar | [5] FAiR PTAk RScaLAPACKRcsdp | [9] SDDA SGP alphahull ash | [13] asypowcaMassClass gpclib

Re: [Rd] License status of CRAN packages

2009-04-23 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 4:59 PM, Ben Goodrich goodr...@fas.harvard.edu wrote: Dirk Eddelbuettel edd at debian.org writes: As a non-exhautive list with possible misclassifications, cran2deb currently has these packasges as 'maybe not free' and does not build them:      

Re: [Rd] License status of CRAN packages

2009-04-23 Thread Ben Goodrich
Gabor Grothendieck wrote: On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 4:59 PM, Ben Goodrich goodr...@fas.harvard.edu wrote: Dirk Eddelbuettel edd at debian.org writes: As a non-exhautive list with possible misclassifications, cran2deb currently has these packasges as 'maybe not free' and does not build them:

Re: [Rd] License status of CRAN packages

2009-04-23 Thread Greg Snow
To: Gabor Grothendieck Cc: Friedrich Leisch; Matthew Dowle; charles blundell; r-de...@r- project.org Subject: Re: [Rd] License status of CRAN packages On 23 April 2009 at 16:35, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: | Of the 31 packages listed: | [1] BARD BayesDA CoCo