R devel - Jul 2014 - Is the ISC license acceptable for CRAN?

Good afternoon.

The ISC (Internet Software Consortium) license[1] is a permissive, open-source
license that is considered "functionally equivalent"[2] to the
Simplified (2-clause) BSD[3]  and MIT[4] licenses, but with extraneous language
removed. There is at least one package on CRAN which incorporates some code
using it[5]. Are there plans to include this license in the list at
<https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/share/licenses/license.db>? Will
packages developed for R using this run into problems during submission?

Thank you,

Avraham Adler

[1] <http://opensource.org/licenses/ISC>
[2] <http://www.openbsd.org/policy.html>,
<http://choosealicense.com/licenses/#isc>
[3] <http://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-2-Clause>
[4] <http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT>
[5] <http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/ff/LICENSE>

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On 23/07/2014, 6:13 PM, Adler, Avraham wrote:
> Good afternoon.
> 
> The ISC (Internet Software Consortium) license[1] is a permissive,
open-source license that is considered "functionally equivalent"[2] to
the Simplified (2-clause) BSD[3]  and MIT[4] licenses, but with extraneous
language removed. There is at least one package on CRAN which incorporates some
code using it[5]. Are there plans to include this license in the list at
<https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/share/licenses/license.db>? Will
packages developed for R using this run into problems during submission?
You are writing to the wrong place.  You need to read the CRAN policies
on CRAN, and if they don't answer your question, write to CRAN to ask it.

Duncan Murdoch