FOSS to non-FOSS licence change CRAN package
I recently decided to commercialize parts of my code in a package I had
written for R, after submitting two versions under the LGPL licence to
CRAN. On the third update, I changed the licensing from LGPL to CC
BY-NC-SA 3.0 to accommodate for this.
However, after submission, I received a message from the guys at CRAN
stating that it is not possible to change a free and open source (FOSS)
licence to a non-FOSS. After suggesting two alternatives:
Remove all previous versions of the package which had an LGPL licence OR
Change licensing for previous versions to the non-FOSS licence
Both were rejected with the following message:
we cannot remove archived versions with a FOSS license, and we do not
accept changes to a non-FOSS license for commercialization reasons.
Could someone shed some more light on why this is not possible on this and
any alternatives I could take, if any?
Thanks in advanced!
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