openpharma/visR

Potential Licensing Issue

ddsjoberg opened this issue · 2 comments

ddsjoberg commented

I am no expert in licensing!

I think if we utilize a pkg released under the GPL-2 we may need to also release our software under the same license. {cowplot} is a dependency and released under GPL-2, but we've indicated the more permissive MIT license for visR.

ddsjoberg commented

Will pharma companies use the package if it's not licensed under MIT?

ddsjoberg commented

I am cleaning up my open issues, and closing a few