Licences

Bioconductor

Licence

GPL (>= 2) Copyleft

Licences in this family ask that works based on the licensed code carry the same licence when they are distributed, and the GPL asks for their source code as well.

Licence	SPDX	OSI	FSF	Restricts use
`GPL-2`	GPL-2.0-only	approved	free	No
`GPL-3`	GPL-3.0-only	approved	free	No

Install tree

Method, the install tree

Installs 14

Flag settings

11 installed packages offer no permissive licence.

Weak copyleft 3 Copyleft 8

Depends

1 named, 2 packages in all

Copyleft 2

Fletcher2013aGPL (>= 2) GPL-2 GPL-3Copyleft

limma1 more belowGPL (>=2) GPL-2 GPL-3Copyleft
- statmodGPL-2 | GPL-3 GPL-2 GPL-3Copyleft

Imports

3 named, 12 packages in all, and 1 that comes with R

Permissive 3
Weak copyleft 3
Copyleft 6

Fletcher2013aGPL (>= 2) GPL-2 GPL-3Copyleft

Biobase2 more belowArtistic-2.0Permissive
- BiocGenerics1 more belowArtistic-2.0Permissive
  - genericsMIT + file LICENSEPermissive
gplots4 more belowGPL-2Copyleft
- caTools1 more belowGPL-3Copyleft
  - bitopsGPL (>= 2) GPL-2 GPL-3Copyleft
- gtoolsGPL-2Copyleft
- KernSmooth comes with RUnlimitedPermissive
VennDiagram4 more belowGPL-2Copyleft
- futile.logger3 more belowLGPL-3Weak copyleft
  - futile.optionsLGPL-3Weak copyleft
  - lambda.r1 more belowLGPL-3Weak copyleft
    formatRGPL GPL-2 GPL-3Copyleft

LinkingTo

It names no package.

Suggests

It suggests no package.

Families

Permissive: Licences in this family ask little more than that the copyright notice and the licence text stay with copies.
Weak copyleft: Licences in this family ask that changed versions of the licensed code itself stay under the same licence, but not the other code it is combined with.
Copyleft: Licences in this family ask that works based on the licensed code carry the same licence when they are distributed, and the GPL asks for their source code as well.

offers no permissive licence, in a family that raises the flag

Releases

Method, the releases

All 26 Bioconductor releases on record declare GPL (>= 2) Copyleft.