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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.

LicenceSPDXOSIFSFRestricts use
GPL-2GPL-2.0-onlyapprovedfreeNo
GPL-3GPL-3.0-onlyapprovedfreeNo

Installs 11

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Families that raise the flag

All but Permissive

10 installed packages offer no permissive licence.

Weak copyleft 1Copyleft 8CopyleftorTerms in a file 1

Depends

1 named, 0 packages in all, and 2 that come with R

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

    Imports

    1 named, 11 packages in all, and 5 that come with R

    • Permissive 1
    • Weak copyleft 1
    • Copyleft 8
    • CopyleftorTerms in a file 1
    miGPL (>= 2) GPL-2 GPL-3Copyleft

    LinkingTo

    It names no package.

    Suggests

    9 packages

    • Weak copyleft 1
    • Copyleft 8

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    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.
    Terms in a file
    The terms are only in the package's own licence file.
    • offers no permissive licence, in a family that raises the flag
    • one release, oldest at the left
    • the next string, where it changed

    GPL (>=2)

    7 releases

    GPL (>= 2)

    54 releases

    0.02-01, 7 Oct 20081.3.1, 28 Jul 2026

    Licence strings, newest first

    • GPL (>= 2) Copyleft 54 releases, 0.04-6, 1 Apr 2009 to 1.3.1, 28 Jul 2026
    • GPL (>=2) Copyleft 7 releases, 0.02-01, 7 Oct 2008 to 0.04-5, 21 Mar 2009