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Re: R packages licensed MIT but not shipping a copy of the MIT license itself, Re: R packages licensed MIT but not shipping a copy of the MIT license itself



[you forgot to CC me on this, anyway, I temporarly subscribed d-legal@]

On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 07:52:18AM +1100, Ben Finney wrote:
> Mattia Rizzolo <mattia@debian.org> writes:
> 
> > Yes, I see how the MIT license is DFSG-free.  What I'm saying is that
> > IMHO the only license requirement (the second paragraph of it that you
> > reported above, about including the copyright notice *and* the
> > permission notice in any copy of the software) is not fulfilled by R
> > packages.
> 
> Thanks for clarifying.
> 
> Can you point us to a representative source package that you think has
> this problem?

src:r-cran-praise (as of current version 1.0.0-1) is a good example.

As also pabs said [1] we should be good enough, but I'd prefer we could
drop the enough here.

[1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2016/03/msg00067.html

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