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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, Vicente Vera <vicentemvp@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 11/19] gnu: Add r-knitr.
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2015 17:08:42 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87si66lced.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lhc67kwo.fsf@mdc-berlin.de> (Ricardo Wurmus's message of "Wed, 16 Sep 2015 11:51:42 +0200")

Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> skribis:

>> 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?

I agree with your suggestion.

Ludo’.

      reply	other threads:[~2015-09-22 15:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-09-13 16:51 [PATCH 11/19] gnu: Add r-knitr Vicente Vera
2015-09-14 11:17 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2015-09-14 20:06   ` Vicente Vera
2015-09-15 17:41     ` Vicente Vera
2015-09-16  9:51     ` Ricardo Wurmus
2015-09-22 15:08       ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]

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