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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



On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 06:10:57AM +1100, Ben Finney wrote:
> This issue should be resolved by the upstream distributor, as I agree
> with you that they are not compliant with the conditions of the license.
> You may want to have that discussion with them.

I wonder how to contact R people, I've never approached R world before.
Furthermore, I currently don't have the time, nor the willing force,
needed to carry on a "legal" discussion with an upstream, much less with
whoever maintains the guidelines of such a big world as CRAN.

> I also agree with Paul Wise, that the Debian source package conforms to
> the license conditions (by always including the required text). So any
> redistributor of Debian, or this component from Debian, will by default
> not violate those conditions.

cool.

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