[Rd] unlicense

[Charles Geyer]

I was looking at https://www.r-project.org/Licenses/ which is first
when you google for "R licenses".  Silly me.  Kurt says I should have
been looking at share/licenses/license.db in the R source tree.
Thanks.  I'm satisfied now.

I don't have any CRAN packages with "Unlimited" on them, but I do have
some on github that are just examples for teaching.  I'll change them
to CC0.

On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 9:44 AM, Kurt Hornik <Kurt.Hornik at wu.ac.at> wrote:
>>>>>> Charles Geyer writes:
>
>> In that case, perhaps the question could be changed to could CC0 be
>> added to the list of R licences.  Right now the only CC licence that
>> is in the R licenses is CC-BY-SA-4.0.
>
> Hmm, I see
>
> Name: CC0
> FSF: free_and_GPLv3_compatible (https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#CC0)
> OSI: NA (https://opensource.org/faq#cc-zero)
> URL: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode
> FOSS: yes
>
> in the R license db ...
>
> -k
>
>> On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 7:23 AM, Brian G. Peterson <brian at braverock.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Tue, 2017-01-17 at 22:46 -0500, Kevin Ushey wrote:
>>>> It appears that Unlicense is considered a free and GPL-compatible
>>>> license; however, the page does suggest using CC0 instead (which is
>>>> indeed a license approved / recognized by CRAN). CC0 appears to be
>>>> the primary license recommended by the FSF for software intended for
>>>> the public domain.
>>>
>>> I'd second the recommendation for CC0.  Lawyers at IP-restrictive firms
>>> I've worked for in the past have been OK with this license.
>>>
>>> - Brian
>>>
>
>
>
>> --
>> Charles Geyer
>> Professor, School of Statistics
>> Resident Fellow, Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science
>> University of Minnesota
>> charlie at stat.umn.edu
>
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Charles Geyer
Professor, School of Statistics
Resident Fellow, Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science
University of Minnesota
charlie at stat.umn.edu