Relicensing devtools (wrap up)

[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.
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Due to the maximum number of users who can be tagged in a post on GitHub, there were two issues (#2290, #2291) used to track re-licensing for ggplot2. This issue combines the remaining contributors who have not yet responded.

@AmundsenJunior, @karl-forner-quartz-bio, @mnel, @ncarchedi, @Paxanator, @yoni, would you permit us to re-license devtools with the MIT license? If so, please comment "I agree" below.

• @AmundsenJunior
• @karl-forner-quartz-bio
• @mnel
• @ncarchedi
• @Paxanator
• @yoni

[hadley]

@kforner I think this might be you?

[hadley]

Code contributed by @mnel no longer exists in devtools.

[hadley]

(Note to self — can't relicense until #2290 has been completed)

[yoni]

I agree

[kforner]

@kforner I think this might be you?

Indeed. I agree.

[hadley]

Since folks haven't responed, I've carefully reviewed their contributions:

• @AmundsenJunior ran styler, extracted duplicated code into a function, and linked a blog post from the README
• @mnel changed one argument in a function call that is no longer included in devtools
• @ncarchedi changed a function that no longer is included in devtools
• @Paxanator adding a missing argument to a call

Since these contributions are small and mostly to code that no longer exists, I will proceed with re-licensing with lack of confirmation.