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Testing version of fdapace
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License inconsistency: requires MASS which is GPL licensed #27

Closed dmgerman closed 6 years ago

dmgerman commented 6 years ago

Hi, I have a question, which is perhaps simply a clarification.

fdaPACE is licensed BSD, but according to the description file, it requires MASS. MASS is licensed under the GPL (see https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/MASS/index.html)

This seems imply that the license of tPACE would need to be GPL too.

thank you for any clarification.

hadjipantelis commented 6 years ago

Hello,

No worries! fdapace does not need to use GPL because of what you mention, it has to use a GPL-compatible licence. BSD-3 is therefore fine.

A similar clarification has been provided within the scope of the Rcpp package here. (if anything Rcpp is an even more integral part for the packages that is used in, as it literally compiles code instead of just being called.).

All the best, Pantelis