Re-licensing rlang

[hadley]

We are systematically re-licensing tidyverse and r-lib packages to use the MIT license, to make our package licenses as clear and permissive as possible. To do so, we need the approval of all copyright holders, which I have found by reviewing contributions from all all non-RStudio contributors. @akbertram, @AliciaSchep, @brodieG, @egnha, @jonocarroll, @jrnold, @kalibera, @karldw, @mikmart, @rcannood, @richierocks, @salim-b, @smingerson, @TylerGrantSmith, @yutannihilation, would you permit us to re-license rlang with the MIT license? If so, please comment "I agree" below.
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• @akbertram
• @AliciaSchep
• @brodieG
• @egnha
• @jonocarroll
• @jrnold
• @kalibera
• @karldw
• @mikmart
• @rcannood
• @richierocks
• @salim-b
• @smingerson
• @TylerGrantSmith
• @yutannihilation

[salim-b]

I agree

[rcannood]

I agree below.

[brodieG]

My contributions had to be reverted due to conflicts with dbplyr, so you do not need my acquiescence for relicensing.

Should you resurrect the contributions I grant you the right to re-license them MIT although wish you were keeping it GPL (for those wondering why see the discussion under ggplot2).

[kalibera]

I am ok with that as my contributions to rlang are minor.

[karldw]

I agree.

And @brodieG, thanks for linking to the background.

[AliciaSchep]

I agree

[smingerson]

I agree

[TylerGrantSmith]

I agree

[jonocarroll]

I agree

[egnha]

I agree

[yutannihilation]

I agree.

[akbertram]

I agree.

[jrnold]

I agree

[mikmart]

I agree

[hadley]

We have made a good-faith attempt to get consent from all contributor to the package under the previous license. This has included reviewing contributions to the package for non-trivial changes, seeking agreement to re-license with GitHub issues, sending a reminding after two weeks, and reaching out by e-mail (where possible).

Unfortunately, we have not received a response from @richierocks . We have carefully reviewed their contributions. Given that the contributions are relatively small, and no one has objected to re-licensing across all tidyverse and r-lib repos, we are going to move ahead with the re-licensing. Of course, if we later discover that contributors are not happy with the re-licensing, we'll re-implement their changes.

[richierocks]

Apologies; I missed this. I agree.