From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: [PATCH 11/19] gnu: Add r-knitr. Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2015 17:08:42 +0200 Message-ID: <87si66lced.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87bnd58d2l.fsf@mdc-berlin.de> <87lhc67kwo.fsf@mdc-berlin.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36731) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZePBW-0004Xm-AF for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Sep 2015 11:08:51 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZePBV-0001Z4-C0 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Sep 2015 11:08:46 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87lhc67kwo.fsf@mdc-berlin.de> (Ricardo Wurmus's message of "Wed, 16 Sep 2015 11:51:42 +0200") 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: Ricardo Wurmus Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, Vicente Vera Ricardo Wurmus 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 =E2=80=9CGPL=E2=80=9D in the= package=E2=80=99s > DESCRIPTION file just means =E2=80=9Cany GPL version=E2=80=9D. Here=E2= =80=99s the comment: > > https://github.com/yihui/knitr/issues/566#issuecomment-140095735 > > The licensing guidelines for R packages state that > > =E2=80=9CAbbreviations GPL and LGPL are ambiguous and usually taken to= mean > any version of the license=E2=80=9D > > In this case =E2=80=9Cgpl2+=E2=80=9D is probably correct, but you may wan= t to add a > comment above the =E2=80=98(license ...)=E2=80=99 expression to state tha= t any GPL > version may be picked by users here. > > What do others think? I agree with your suggestion. Ludo=E2=80=99.