R P Herrold | 10 Jun 2009 21:21
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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 
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