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From: Roel Janssen <roel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] gnu: Add r-bigmemory-sri.
Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2016 14:33:14 +0100
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Roel Janssen writes:

> Ricardo Wurmus writes:
>
>> Roel Janssen <roel@gnu.org> writes:
>>> +    (description "This package provides a shared resource interface for the
>>> +bigmemory and synchronicity packages.")
>>> +    (license (list license:lgpl3 license:asl2.0))))
>>
>> What does this list mean?
>> Also: is this LGPL3+ or LGPL3 only?
>
> The CRAN page lists LGPL3 explicitly, but that could be imprecise ...
> The source code package does not contain any other license indication
> than waht is stated in the DESCRIPTION file (which states LGPL3 and
> Apache Software License 2.0).
>
> See:
>   https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/bigmemory.sri/
>
> So, I think the only thing I can do is just follow what has been stated,
> which is LGPL3 (precisely this) and Apache Software License 2.0.

I don't know how to proceed now.  I think it's fine as the list of
licenses is the list of licenses they provide.

Are these licenses incompatible?  If so, then there's nothing I can do
either, because these are the licenses that are provided..

Kind regards,
Roel Janssen