Chapter 4 CRAN licenses

4.1 “Officially Authorized” Licenses

From R Licenses.

  • The “GNU Affero General Public License” version 3
  • The “Artistic License” version 2.0
  • The “BSD 2-clause License”
  • The “BSD 3-clause License”
  • The “GNU General Public License” version 2
  • The “GNU General Public License” version 3
  • The “GNU Library General Public License” version 2
  • The “GNU Lesser General Public License” version 2.1
  • The “GNU Lesser General Public License” version 3
  • The “MIT License”
  • The “Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike International License” version 4.0

4.2 About R license

## 
## This software is distributed under the terms of the GNU General
## Public License, either Version 2, June 1991 or Version 3, June 2007.
## The terms of version 2 of the license are in a file called COPYING
## which you should have received with
## this software and which can be displayed by RShowDoc("COPYING").
## Version 3 of the license can be displayed by RShowDoc("GPL-3").
## 
## Copies of both versions 2 and 3 of the license can be found
## at https://www.R-project.org/Licenses/.
## 
## A small number of files (the API header files listed in
## R_DOC_DIR/COPYRIGHTS) are distributed under the
## LESSER GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE, version 2.1 or later.
## This can be displayed by RShowDoc("LGPL-2.1"),
## or obtained at the URI given.
## Version 3 of the license can be displayed by RShowDoc("LGPL-3").
## 
## 'Share and Enjoy.'

4.3 The ten most used

## Selecting by n
## # A tibble: 10 x 2
##    license                  n
##    <chr>                <int>
##  1 GPL (>= 2)            4291
##  2 GPL-3                 2719
##  3 GPL-2                 2633
##  4 MIT + file LICENSE    1612
##  5 GPL (>= 3)             729
##  6 GPL                    543
##  7 Artistic-2.0           482
##  8 GPL-2 | GPL-3          301
##  9 GPL-3 | file LICENSE   143
## 10 LGPL-3                 141

4.3.3 Apache License

4.5 Restrictive licenses

##                 package                     license
## 1                 akima          ACM | file LICENSE
## 2             alphahull                file LICENSE
## 3                asypow          ACM | file LICENSE
## 4                gpclib                file LICENSE
## 5                  momr                Artistic-2.0
## 6  PredictiveRegression                file LICENSE
## 7               regtest                file LICENSE
## 8                rindex                file LICENSE
## 9          rngwell19937                file LICENSE
## 10                sfdct             CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
## 11                sigQC                file LICENSE
## 12              tripack          ACM | file LICENSE
## 13                 CNEr        GPL-2 | file LICENSE
## 14             genArise                file LICENSE
## 15       GraphAlignment                file LICENSE
## 16              MotifDb Artistic-2.0 | file LICENSE
## 17             RankProd                file LICENSE
## 18                 SPIA                file LICENSE
  • ACM

  • CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

  • Artistic-2.0