[Debian-med-packaging] r-cran-evaluate_0.5.1-1_amd64.changes REJECTED

Andreas Tille tille at debian.org
Sat Dec 28 17:22:35 UTC 2013


Hi Paul,

On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 11:56:12AM -0500, Paul R. Tagliamonte wrote:
> Hurm. I'm a bit on the fence about this one; but I guess that's OK if
> that's how "GPL" is understood to whatever's reading this format.

I guess some authors at CRAN tend to rely on what is written on the
homepage exclusively.
 
> Upstream should have a copy of the license terms that it's under in the
> source regardless (otherwise it's technically a violation of the license)

I agree and will forward this to upstream.
 
> Feel free to re-upload. I'd likely let it through now that I understand
> that this is how that is understood.

Reuploaded.

Thanks for getting new queue closely down to the bottom

       Andreas.
 
> On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 11:53 AM, Andreas Tille <tille at debian.org> wrote:
> 
> > Hi Paul,
> >
> > On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 04:00:33AM +0000, Paul Richards Tagliamonte wrote:
> > >
> > > Howdy maintainer,
> > >
> > > Thanks for your work so far,
> > >
> > > Can you please show me where you found which version of the GPL that this
> > > software was under? I can only see "GPL" in the description.
> >
> > Its homepage
> >
> >    http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/evaluate/
> >
> > License:        GPL-2 | GPL-3 [expanded from: GPL]
> >
> >
> > I'd consider this as GPL-2 or any later version of this license.
> >
> > Kind regards
> >
> >        Andreas.
> >
> > --
> > http://fam-tille.de
> >
> 
> 
> 
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