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PolMine / LinkTools

R package with tools for data linkage
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Make choice on license #3

Open ablaette opened 1 year ago

ablaette commented 1 year ago

Sooner or later, we need to make a choice on the license of the package. See this as a good starting point for default options: https://r-pkgs.org/license.html

If we would go for GPL-3 (cp. polmineR, RcppCWB), we would just run:

use_gpl_license()
ChristophLeonhardt commented 1 year ago

This should take into account the licenses of data in the data directory.

ablaette commented 1 year ago

Based on Hadley Wickham's discussion of licenses, I still think that GPL-3 is a good choice. So I ran use_gpl_license(), and the license for the package is GPL-3 for the time being.

The license for the Stammdaten might actually be CC-0. We might consider moving the data into a separate data package - then we would have a clearer situation for the license. This is why I would leave the issue open.