On 08/28/2009 10:10 PM, Jack Tanner wrote: > quantreg <http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/quantreg/index.html> I took a shot at this one (and its depends/suggests), and I ran into SparseM. It claims to be GPL on its CRAN page, but that is not entirely true, as its LICENSE file admits: == LICENSE == All R code and documentation in this package is licensed under the terms of the GPL license -- see COPYING in the top level of the R directory tree for further details. All fortran and C code in the src directory, with the exception of cholesky.f is also licensed on the GPL license, see http://www.cs.umn.edu/Research/arpa/SPARSKIT/sparskit.html for explicit stipulation for sparskit.f. The code in cholesky.f is a modified version of code originally written by Esmond Ng and Barry Peyton. The modified version is distributed as part of PCx by Czyzyk, Mehrotra, Wagner, and Wright and is copywrite by the University of Chicago. The PCx distribution makes the following stipulation: This software discloses material protectable under copyright laws of the United States. Permission is hereby granted to use, reproduce, prepare derivative works, and redistribute to others at no charge, provided that the original PCx copyright notice, Government license and disclaimer are retained and any changes are clearly documented; however, any entity desiring permission to use this software within a commercial organization or to incorporate this software or a work based on the software into a product for sale must contact Paul Betten at the Industrial Technology Development Center, Argonne National Laboratory. PAUL BETTEN betten@xxxxxxx Industrial Technology Development Center, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439 (630) 252-4962 FAX: (630) 252-5230 == EOF == That PCx license from ANL is non-free, due to its commercial use restriction clause. That license is also incompatible with the GPL, so the entire work is almost certainly not redistributable when compiled together. In order to include this package in Fedora, we would need to get permission from Paul Betten to use that file under a GPL compatible license (or the GPL itself). I have sent an email to Mr. Betten, and I am hopeful that he is still at ANL, and that he is willing/able to resolve this licensing issue. ~spot _______________________________________________ Fedora-r-devel-list mailing list Fedora-r-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-r-devel-list
