[R-pkg-team] r-cran-venndiagram_1.6.20-1_amd64.changes REJECTED

[Steffen Möller]

Heya,

I just reread my email and feel the need to apologize for some weird 
wording in there.

Cheers,

Steffen

On 15.01.19 17:35, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Hi Thorsten,
>
> On Tue, Jan 15, 2019 at 04:49:53PM +0100, Steffen Möller wrote:
>> Hi Thorsten,
>>
>> Have many thanks for your swift review. I saw that inconsistency in the
>> files and thought like ... damn ... this will likely be rejected. In my
>> opinion, the maintainer expressed that choice of his in the description. I
>> don't want to ask, I must admit, don't have the mental energy and don't
>> really stand behind the need to clarify the situation. There was freedom to
>> choose a license. That freedom was used. If this now means that that R
>> package does not enter the distribution, at least not via my hands, then so
>> be it.
> I agree with Steffen.  The files say:
>
>     GPL (either version 1, or at your option, any later version)
>     or "something else"
>
> which is no conflict to GPL-2.
>
> Do we really need to contact upstream about this since as far as I
> understood CRAN the License mentioned in DESCRIPTION is the valid
> license statement.
>
> Kind regards
>
>        Andreas.
>
>> On 15.01.19 16:00, Thorsten Alteholz wrote:
>>> HI Steffen,
>>>
>>> while DESCRIPTION says GPL-2, the file headers say Perl (=GPL-1+ or Artistic-1).
>>> Can you please clarify with upstream what he wants?
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>    Thorsten
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ===
>>>
>>> Please feel free to respond to this email if you don't understand why
>>> your files were rejected, or if you upload new files which address our
>>> concerns.
>>>
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