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ropensci / iheatmapr

Complex, interactive heatmaps in R
https://docs.ropensci.org/iheatmapr
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License / copyright information #34

Closed mschilli87 closed 5 years ago

mschilli87 commented 6 years ago

The LICENSE file only contains a copyright note for the year 2017 only, though there has been code added in 2018.

Also, while having this on rOpenSci seems to imply openness but not necessarily freedom, actually (re-)using this would be much easier given a proper free license. I for example would like to package iheatmapr for GNU Guix to make it available on our institute's computational infrastructure, but this requires me to specify a license.

Also, while I respect anybodies freedom to not release their software as free, I would not want to rely on software that cannot be maintained once the original author doesn't have the resources anymore. :wink:

mschilli87 commented 6 years ago

I just remembered that R packages usually include license information in the DESCRIPTION file and was very happy to see https://github.com/ropensci/iheatmapr/blob/e92024d897329ab12b8f686855a067d32fa55cc7/DESCRIPTION#L45.

I'll leave this open as I still believe the copyright should be updated and the license could/should be indicated more clearly, but I'll take this as a green light to continue packaging. :wink:

AliciaSchep commented 5 years ago

Yes, the license is MIT as indicated by DESCRIPTION file (agree that the standard R package way of specifying licence with the template is not the most obvious!). I've added a 'badge' to the README to indicate the license there as well. Have also updated the year.