From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ricardo Wurmus Subject: Re: [PATCH 11/19] gnu: Add r-knitr. Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2015 11:51:42 +0200 Message-ID: <87lhc67kwo.fsf@mdc-berlin.de> References: <87bnd58d2l.fsf@mdc-berlin.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51667) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zc9Na-0000eZ-Ra for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Sep 2015 05:51:55 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zc9NX-0005w2-Lj for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Sep 2015 05:51:54 -0400 Received: from sender163-mail.zoho.com ([74.201.84.163]:25809) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zc9NX-0005vU-DU for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Sep 2015 05:51:51 -0400 In-reply-to: List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Vicente Vera Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Hi Vicente, > I'm not sure if it's correct, but I changed the license from gpl3+ to > gpl2+ to keep it consistent with the r-markdown package > (https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#v2v3Compatibility). Thanks > for figuring that out. actually, the author responded and said that “GPL” in the package’s DESCRIPTION file just means “any GPL version”. Here’s the comment: https://github.com/yihui/knitr/issues/566#issuecomment-140095735 The licensing guidelines for R packages state that “Abbreviations GPL and LGPL are ambiguous and usually taken to mean any version of the license” In this case “gpl2+” is probably correct, but you may want to add a comment above the ‘(license ...)’ expression to state that any GPL version may be picked by users here. What do others think? ~~ Ricardo