{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/eddelbuettel/digest/issues/36","repository_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/eddelbuettel/digest","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/eddelbuettel/digest/issues/36/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/eddelbuettel/digest/issues/36/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/eddelbuettel/digest/issues/36/events","html_url":"https://github.com/eddelbuettel/digest/issues/36","id":151527865,"number":36,"title":"Possible relicensing of digest from GPL-2 to GPL (>= 2) ","user":{"login":"eddelbuettel","id":673121,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/673121?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/eddelbuettel","html_url":"https://github.com/eddelbuettel","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/eddelbuettel/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/eddelbuettel/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/eddelbuettel/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/eddelbuettel/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/eddelbuettel/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/eddelbuettel/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/eddelbuettel/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/eddelbuettel/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/eddelbuettel/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":10,"created_at":"2016-04-28T01:20:21Z","updated_at":"2016-04-28T12:22:05Z","closed_at":null,"body":"digest was started 13 years ago in 2003. At the time GPL-2 was the only game in town; the GPL-3 did AFAIK not arrive until 2007.   \r\n\r\nIt has been pointed out to me that in order to use digest along with software licensed _only_ under the GPL-3, it would be preferable to use either \"GPL (>= 2)\" or \"GPL-2 | GPL-3\" (which is what CRAN currently expands the former to).\r\n\r\nI am ok with the idea of relicensing from \"GPL-2\" to \"GPL (>= 2)\" [1] but I am under the understanding that _every_ copyright holder needs to agree.  So based on the DESCRIPTION file, this means we need to hear from everybody below (in chronological order of contributions to digest): \r\n\r\n- [x] Dirk Eddelbuettel @eddelbuettel \r\n- [ ] Antoine Lucas (no known GitHub handle, old email, possibly difficult to contact)\r\n- [ ] Jarek Tuszynski (no known GitHub handle, old work email that was said to bounce)\r\n- [x] Henrik Bengtsson @HenrikBengtsson\r\n- [x] Simon Urbanek @s-u\r\n- [ ] Mario Frasca @mfrasca\r\n- [x] Bryan Lewis @bwlewis\r\n- [x] Murray Stokely @murraystokely\r\n- [x] Hannes Muehleisen @hannesmuehleisen \r\n- [ ] Duncan Murdoch @dmurdoch \r\n- [x] Qiang Kou @thirdwing \r\n- [x] Jim Hester @jimhester \r\n- [ ] Wush Wu @wush978 \r\n- [x] Thierry Onkelinx @ThierryO \r\n- [x] Michel Lang @mllg\r\n\r\nI marked myself as being fine with the proposed change, and I plan to accordingly mark everybody who reports back (preferably below with a simple _\"I am ok with the license change to GPL (>=2)\"_. \r\n\r\nBut it is my understanding that we need _everybody_ to report back in order to be operational.  So thanks in advance for giving this some thought, and following-up below.\r\nThanks to everybody for all the support over these thirteen years -- with all your help digest went _much_ further than I ever imagined.   Let's see if we can pull this one off too, so help in locating everybody listed above (and of course anybody I may have forgotten) is welcome!\r\n\r\n[1] Also please forgive me for very plainly stating that I have **zero** interest in a license comparison discussion. The digest package has always been under copyleft licensing, and will remain copyleft. This is not the place or time to discuss MIT vs Apache vs BSD vs ... 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