From 70809a901fd28436ad10ed032ef9ff81b94e82e1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter DeWitt Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2026 08:56:09 -0700 Subject: [PATCH 1/2] change from GPL-2 to BSD-3-Clause --- DESCRIPTION | 2 +- LICENSE | 3 +++ NEWS.md | 7 +++++++ 3 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) create mode 100644 LICENSE diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION index 661854c..d2ef7ef 100644 --- a/DESCRIPTION +++ b/DESCRIPTION @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ Description: Provides tools for working with medical coding schemas such as the comorbidity classification algorithms such as the Pediatric Complex Chronic Conditions (PCCC), Charlson, and Elixhauser indices. Depends: R (>= 3.5.0) -License: GPL-2 +License: BSD_3_clause + file LICENSE Language: en-US Encoding: UTF-8 URL: http://www.peteredewitt.com/medicalcoder/, https://github.com/dewittpe/medicalcoder/ diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d04af0a --- /dev/null +++ b/LICENSE @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +YEAR: 2026 +COPYRIGHT HOLDER: Peter E. DeWitt, Seth Russell, Meg Rebull, Tell Bennett, The Regents of the University of Colorado +ORGANIZATION: University of Colorado Anschutz diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md index 4471ce6..aa367ba 100644 --- a/NEWS.md +++ b/NEWS.md @@ -1,5 +1,12 @@ # medicalcoder 0.7.0.9000 +## License Change + +medicalcoder <= 0.7.0 was under GPL-2 for no other reason that that was the +default in the template DESCRIPTION file. With this release we have +transitioned from GPL-2 to BSD-3-Clause to reduce almost all barriers to use of +the package in other environments. + ## New Features * If a `tibble` is passed to `comorbidities()` and the `dplyr` namespace is From 1245edc435d75a4e2e94e3b5775eb0d7a25dc850 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter DeWitt Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2026 09:25:46 -0700 Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Update copyright holder in LICENSE file --- LICENSE | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE index d04af0a..11efbe4 100644 --- a/LICENSE +++ b/LICENSE @@ -1,3 +1,3 @@ YEAR: 2026 -COPYRIGHT HOLDER: Peter E. DeWitt, Seth Russell, Meg Rebull, Tell Bennett, The Regents of the University of Colorado +COPYRIGHT HOLDER: Peter E. DeWitt, Seth Russell, Meg Rebull, Tell Bennett, Vincent Rubinetti, The Regents of the University of Colorado ORGANIZATION: University of Colorado Anschutz