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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

Installs 11

Flag settings
Families that raise the flag

All but Permissive

9 installed packages offer no permissive licence.

Copyleft 8CopyleftorTerms in a file 1

Depends

It names no package besides R itself.

Imports

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

  • Permissive 2
  • Copyleft 8
  • CopyleftorTerms in a file 1
STOPESGPL-2Copyleft

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.
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

All 2 releases on record declare GPL-2 Copyleft.