10 Jun 2009 21:21
License quandry in the Fedora sub-space of all R packages
There was mention of this [r-sig-fedora@...] mailing list on one of the other R lists overnight. I thought the list needed a bit of posting, as I could not recall seeing content recently on it. I cross post to the Red Hat hosted list as well, it raises issues relevant there as well I have been packaging in support of many of the financial packages at CRAN and in R-Forge [ http://r-forge.r-project.org/ ], and end up with a big clutch, to 'satisfy' all needed intermediate BuildRequirements and installation dependencies http://cran.r-project.org/web/views/Finance.html http://cran.r-project.org/web/views/Econometrics.html [herrold <at> centos-5 ~]$ for i in zoo xts TTR quantmod opentick \ IBrokers ; do rpm -q R-$i \ --qf '%{name}-%{version}-%{release} \t %{license} \n' ; done R-zoo-1.6-1orc GPL-2 R-xts-0.6.5-1orc GPL-3 R-TTR-0.20-1orc GPL-3 R-quantmod-0.3.9-1orc GPL-3 R-opentick-0.1.2-1orc GPL-3 R-IBrokers-0.2.1-1orc GPL-3 [herrold <at> centos-5 ~]$ These are all fine, with GPL licenses, but some of them have dependencies (or sub-dependencies) on packages, which in turn have licenses that are a problem in the Fedora view of the world. I extract those in the troublesome subset up top in this email, and note the complete list of my packaging(Continue reading)
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