Re: [RFS] r-cran-gmp
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
[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
>
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