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Quick serialization of R objects
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Note about AGPL-3 license #13

Closed hadley closed 5 years ago

hadley commented 5 years ago

AGPL-3 is sufficiently unusual that I think it's worth a brief note in the readme. It's likely to make it impossible for people to use inside many companies (for example, both google and facebook forbid the use of AGPL software).

traversc commented 5 years ago

Thanks for the info. What would you recommend?

hadley commented 5 years ago

An ideal world, I'd recommend avoid using AGPL-3 just because it's relatively unknown, and bigger companies are generally concerned about it. If you've picked it deliberately, then I think you should at least just note the license on the README, and maybe point to something like https://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-affero-gpl.html

traversc commented 5 years ago

I've changed the license to standard GPL-3. Thanks again for the heads up.

hadley commented 5 years ago

Awesome, thanks!