Re-license to MIT

juliasilge · juliasilge · commit bcceacce600e · 2021-03-09T11:17:01.000-07:00
diff --git a/.Rbuildignore b/.Rbuildignore
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 ^\.github$
 ^CODE_OF_CONDUCT\.md$
 
+^LICENSE\.md$
diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ Description: Many models contain tuning parameters (i.e. parameters that cannot
 Authors@R: c(
     person(given = "Max", family = "Kuhn", email = "max@rstudio.com", role = c("aut", "cre")),
     person("RStudio", role = "cph"))
-License: GPL-2
+License: MIT + file LICENSE
 URL: https://dials.tidymodels.org, https://github.com/tidymodels/dials
 BugReports: https://github.com/tidymodels/dials/issues
 Encoding: UTF-8
diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE
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+YEAR: 2021
+COPYRIGHT HOLDER: dials authors
diff --git a/LICENSE.md b/LICENSE.md
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+# MIT License
+
+Copyright (c) 2021 dials authors
+
+Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
+of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
+in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
+to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
+copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
+furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
+
+The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
+copies or substantial portions of the Software.
+
+THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
+IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
+FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
+AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
+LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
+OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
+SOFTWARE.
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
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 # dials (development version)
 
+* Re-licensed package from GPL-2 to MIT. See [consent from copyright holders here](https://github.com/tidymodels/dials/issues/156).
+
+
 # dials 0.0.9
 
 * Quantitative parameters now print the number of possible values if they have been set with `value_set()` (@kmdupr33, #138).

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