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License, and License clarity

Open chunky opened this issue 4 years ago • 0 comments

The company I work at are trying to open source some R code, but we're running into the situation that GPLv2 is incompatible with GPLv3, making it impossible for us to put an open source license our code that satisfies the requirements of both.

The only reference I see in your repository to the license is in DESCRIPTION, which currently labels it GPL-v3. Other than that, there doesn't appear to be a LICENSE file in your repository, or anything else indicating that the code is deliberately licensed under the GPLv3.

Tidyverse and r-lib have recently been aggressively re-licensing their code to be MIT [eg ggplot2's thread on the subject here: https://github.com/tidyverse/ggplot2/issues/4232 ]. Would you be open to adjusting the license on your code to also be MIT? Or if the GPL aligns with your personal stance on open source, perhaps GPLv2-or-higher, to avoid as many incompatibilities as possible?

chunky avatar Mar 25 '21 20:03 chunky