Re: [R-pkg-devel] Relicense to GPL-3?

2016-11-06 Thread Henrik Bengtsson
What's already been said is good advice. At first, it may be a bit tricky to under copyright and licenses. When I started out, I for the longest held back on releasing software / packages because I somehow thought I basically had to make a final decision on the license at that moment and that

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Relicense to GPL-3?

2016-11-06 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 6 November 2016 at 16:53, Lenth, Russell V wrote: | Permission of "all other copyright holders" as in developers of all packages that depend on 'foo'? Please do have a look at the two FAQs I referenced before: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.en.html

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Relicense to GPL-3?

2016-11-06 Thread Lenth, Russell V
Permission of "all other copyright holders" as in developers of all packages that depend on 'foo'? Russ Sent from my iPhone > On Nov 6, 2016, at 9:31 AM, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > >> On 06/11/2016 4:11 AM, Lenth, Russell V wrote: >> A correction and clarification...

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Relicense to GPL-3?

2016-11-06 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 6 November 2016 at 09:11, Lenth, Russell V wrote: | A correction and clarification... | | It is MY package's GPL-2 license that is being violated by the other package -- not its GPL-3 license. No, let's stop here. I don't think that is legally (or conceptually !!) possible. Your code, your

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Relicense to GPL-3?

2016-11-06 Thread Lenth, Russell V
A correction and clarification... It is MY package's GPL-2 license that is being violated by the other package -- not its GPL-3 license. Let me lay it out with some generic names: * The 'foo' package specifies a GPL-2 license * The 'bar' package depends on 'foo', but specifies a GPL-3