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dbosak01 / sassy

A meta-package for providing SAS®-like functionality to R.
Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal
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Consider using a GPL-compatible license #29

Closed fkohrt closed 1 year ago

fkohrt commented 1 year ago

I am amazed by {sassy} system and the functionality it provides! However, it's choice of license makes it hard to integrate it into other projects, as Creative Commons licenses (besides CC0) should not be used for software:

We recommend against using Creative Commons licenses for software. […] [O]ur licenses are currently not compatible with the major software licenses, so it would be difficult to integrate CC-licensed work with other free software.

— Creative Commons FAQ

In fact, most packages from the {sassy} system are CC0 licensed, which is great, but the {sassy} meta package itself signals differently. So it would be best to choose a GPL-compatible license for {sassy} and {reporter} as well, as to ease the inclusion in larger projects.

dbosak01 commented 1 year ago

Florian:
I deeply appreciate this feedback. I was wondering if this was a problem, but no one had said anything. Based on your feedback, I will change it. Give me a few days. David

fkohrt commented 1 year ago

That's really great, thank you! To reiterate: I believe CC0 is a fine choice, so it might be easiest to switch {sassy} and {reporter} to that as well.

fkohrt commented 1 year ago

Great, thanks! (Fixed via dbosak01/sassy@552c32d and dbosak01/reporter@8f1c9dc)