Licenses for data in Tidyverse

cobkmrs · 2022-02-16T07:41:40.100Z

Tidyverse contains a number of datasets without other attribution information such as the diamonds dataset. If the data is used separately, does it have its own license, for example a creative commons attribution license?

duringju211 · 2022-02-16T11:57:01.460Z

The whole tidyverse has a MIT licence ( MIT License • tidyverse). So I would guess, that the datasets included in the tidyverse have the same licence.

olyerickson · 2022-02-16T12:17:59.713Z

It's a reasonable question. The nycflights13 dataset (for example) doesn't have a license explicitly associated with it: GitHub - tidyverse/nycflights13: An R data package containing all out-bound flights from NYC in 2013 + useful metdata

mara · 2022-02-16T14:08:04.735Z

The license is CC0 in DESCRIPTION for nycflights13

github.com

tidyverse/nycflights13/blob/1273c4e8fdce96039748f02285bcedb4fd325f85/DESCRIPTION#L14

      
        
            Authors@R: 
                c(person(given = "Hadley",
                         family = "Wickham",
                         role = c("aut", "cre"),
                         email = "hadley@rstudio.com"),
                  person(given = "RStudio",
                         role = "cph"))
            Description: Airline on-time data for all flights departing NYC in 2013.
                Also includes useful 'metadata' on airlines, airports, weather, and
                planes.
            License: CC0
            URL: https://nycflights13.tidyverse.org, https://github.com/tidyverse/nycflights13
            BugReports: https://github.com/tidyverse/nycflights13/issues
            Depends: 
                R (>= 3.2)
            Imports: 
                tibble
            Suggests: 
                covr,
                dplyr
            Encoding: UTF-8

olyerickson · 2022-02-16T14:28:58.357Z

Thanks @mara ! Is nycflights13 the only dataset that is actually part of tidyverse? In the top-level tidyverse github it is the only one that has its own repo...

cobkmrs · 2022-02-16T14:31:19.669Z

ggplot also has a number of datasets ggplot2/data-raw at main · tidyverse/ggplot2 · GitHub

mara · 2022-02-16T15:28:42.856Z

Yeah. I believe so. I actually asked hadley about the datasets, and basically his stance is that all datasets should be CC0. So, if you want to cite something, cite the package, or just cite the dataset as CC0.

mara · 2022-02-16T15:29:08.147Z

Yeah, see my reply above Licenses for data in Tidyverse - #7 by mara

system · 2022-03-09T15:29:39.355Z

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