license, borrow-reuse this code with attribution in a package?

[joey711]

Hi Edwin Chen,

My name is Paul McMurdie, and I'm the main developer/maintainer for a computational biology package called phyloseq.

I don't know of any other R implementations of this gap statistic algorithm for which I could make proper dependencies in my package. I wanted to ask you formally if I could adapt your could, and include it in my package - with attribution to you as author, of course. I wanted to both give you the opportunity to decline, as well as the opportunity to define some sort of license to this for sharing/resharing.

Thanks for the consideration. I'd also be happy to discuss any details or reservations you might have, and also show you a draft of the adapted code in phyloseq, prior to any release.

[echen]

Hey Paul, Sorry for the slow response! You're definitely welcome to use and adapt my code in any way you like. I can add a license if you prefer to make things more formal. If so, is there any license you'd prefer that I use? (I'm admittedly not well-versed in licenses, and would be delighted in any use at all of my code, so happy to use pretty much anything.)

[joey711]

Great! Thanks!

I'm similarly not well-versed in licenses. I assigned phyloseq an "AGPL-3" license, but I don't know which other licenses I can or cannot include in the package. I think AGPL-3 will be the presumed license if I include it in phyloseq and list you as author/contributor with no other special comments. If you realize that you'd prefer an alternative, just let me know, and I'll look into how I can indicate that in the package source.

Thanks again, and best