Re: [RFS] r-cran-gmp
On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 6:25 PM Rodrigo Carvalho <rodrigorsdc@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Dylan
>
> Thanks for the review.
>
> I'm a layman on license stuff, but I'm reading the GPL version 1 [1]
> and I found out a stretch that says:
>
> "Each version is given a distinguishing version number. If the Program
> specifies a version number of the license which applies to it and "any
> later version", you have the option of following the terms and conditions
> either of that version or of any later version published by the Free
> Software Foundation. If the Program does not specify a version number of
> the license, you may choose any version ever published by the Free Software
> Foundation."
>
> Note the part:
>
> "If the Program does not specify a version number of
> the license, you may choose any version ever published by the Free Software
> Foundation"
>
> Neither DESCRIPTION file nor source files specify GPL version 1, they are just
> licensed as GPL without specifying a version, except the factorize.cc file which
> is GPL-3. So, we can choose the GPL-3 for the whole program, right?
>
> What do you think?
>
> thanks,
>
> Rodrigo
Thank you, Rodrigo. Yes, I also checked the package (which was
already "there" when I joined as co-author), and it always
consistently uses "GPL" without any version.
I've got to know my co-authors, notably the maintainer Antoine Lucas
quite a bit and I'm 100% sure that they never cared about licence
numbers; (similar to myself) they are mathematicians and researchers
who want to do science and development for the public good, and not
spend time on boring lawyer's stuff (;-).. Of course, I could ask
the other authors -- if it's ok to change to say GPL 3, and modify the
sources accordingly, but honestly, I'd be very happy to know we could
keep 'GPL' unversioned indeed with the intent to say
- we want GPL,
- but we don't want to deal with details, nor have to spend time on
learning why we should care more ..
Best,
Martin
>
> [1] https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-1.0.html
>
> Em sex., 29 de mai. de 2020 às 09:44, Dirk Eddelbuettel
> <edd@debian.org> escreveu:
> >
> >
> > On 29 May 2020 at 08:45, Dylan Aïssi wrote:
> > | Hi Rodrigo,
> > |
> > | Le jeu. 28 mai 2020 à 18:48, Rodrigo Carvalho <rodrigorsdc@gmail.com> a écrit :
> > | >
> > | > I uploaded a new R package into salsa[1]. Also, I uploaded into mentors[2].
> > | >
> > |
> > | Thanks for your work!
> > |
> > | It seems you did some work manually (I had to fix some stuff, please
> > | have a look at the git repo). Next time, you could use
> > | "prepare_missing_cran_package" and "itp_from_debian_dir " from the
> > | package dh-r, they will save your time ;-)
> > |
> > | Unfortunately, the package cannot be uploaded to NEW because there is
> > | a problem in the license. The package is under the GPL-1 (no precision
> > | of the version = v1), but the file src/factorize.cc seems to be under
> > | GPL-3+. These licenses are not compatible, you should clarify this
> > | with upstream devs.
> >
> > That should be no problem. Martin Maechler (now CC'ed) of the R Core team is
> > one of the upstream authors. And he is the one who persuaded Ross and Robert
> > in 1993 (IIRC) to make their then-little-known "R" a part of the GNU Project.
> >
> > Per https://github.com/cran/gmp/blob/master/ChangeLog and
> > https://github.com/cran/gmp/blob/master/Changes the commits started in 2004
> > so I guess it already meant GPL (>= 2) but we cannot know for sure. But I
> > expect this to be fixed quite easily.
> >
> > Dirk
> >
> > --
> > http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | edd@debian.org
>
--
Martin Maechler,
Seminar fuer Statistik, ETH Zurich
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