From hadley at rice.edu  Wed Apr  4 00:37:40 2012
From: hadley at rice.edu (Hadley Wickham)
Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2012 17:37:40 -0500
Subject: [Rd] R datasets ownership(copyright) and license
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> I somewhat agree with Spencer -- as I have mentioned, the recent precedence
> with tz database shows that such claims would not be taken as ungrounded right
> away and things could easily go all the way to court -- and that might be a
> really costly endeavor regardless who is right or wrong. ?Proving that
> data is factual, and not fictional/creative/original might be another challenge
> in quite a few cases I bet.

I think it's generally easy to tell if something is a fact or not, and
I doubt any of the datasets in R are fictional.

Hadley


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[Rd] R datasets ownership(copyright) and license
Hadley Wickham