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Shiny Dashboarding framework
https://rstudio.github.io/shinydashboard/
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GPL-2 licensing #258

Closed alamit closed 6 years ago

alamit commented 6 years ago

I have opened this issue on RInno package.

As from what I could see, shinydashboard is not required to be GPL-2 only by its dependencies, would it be feasible to consider licensing shinydashboard under GPL-3 or GPL (>= 2)?

I think it would be more coherent as shinydashboard is made to run on top of shiny and GPL-2 is not compatible with GPL-3, but maybe I am missing a point.

wch commented 6 years ago

Hi, we've changed the license to GPL>=2. Thanks for notifying us about this.

alamit commented 6 years ago

Thank you very much, also I think you forgot to update the LICENSEfile, which states:

The shinydashboard package as a whole is distributed under GPL-2 (GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE version 2).

It could lead to misunderstandings, even if the official way of licensing an R package is DESCRIPTION file.

wch commented 6 years ago

Thanks, I've fixed this in ef38ca5.