Re: [PATCH 11/19] gnu: Add r-knitr.

[Ludovic Courtès]

Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> skribis:

>> I'm not sure if it's correct, but I changed the license from gpl3+ to
>> gpl2+ to keep it consistent with the r-markdown package
>> (https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#v2v3Compatibility). Thanks
>> for figuring that out.
>
> actually, the author responded and said that “GPL” in the package’s
> DESCRIPTION file just means “any GPL version”.  Here’s the comment:
>
>    https://github.com/yihui/knitr/issues/566#issuecomment-140095735
>
> The licensing guidelines for R packages state that
>
>    “Abbreviations GPL and LGPL are ambiguous and usually taken to mean
>    any version of the license”
>
> In this case “gpl2+” is probably correct, but you may want to add a
> comment above the ‘(license ...)’ expression to state that any GPL
> version may be picked by users here.
>
> What do others think?

I agree with your suggestion.

Ludo’.