Thanks for finding this. I passed this message on to the CRAN maintainers (CRAN also distributes binaries for Windows and Mac OS X) who also contacted the SparseM package author. Martyn On Wed, 2009-09-02 at 11:03 -0400, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote: > 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 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- This message and its attachments are strictly confidential. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, please immediately notify the sender and delete it. Since its integrity cannot be guaranteed, its content cannot involve the sender's responsibility. Any misuse, any disclosure or publication of its content, either whole or partial, is prohibited, exception made of formally approved use ----------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Fedora-r-devel-list mailing list Fedora-r-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-r-devel-list
