Problem
README/public-surface due diligence found that kaefa is not currently compatible with ContextualWisdomLab's no-GPL-family commercial intake baseline.
Current package metadata on protected development lineage declares:
License: GPL-3 for kaefa itself;- direct runtime import
mirt (>= 1.27), a GPL-family dependency used throughout the numerical/model-fitting path;
- additional direct R imports that require a complete current license/provenance inventory before any relicensing claim.
There is no root LICENSE file that independently grants Apache-2.0 or MIT. The repository's own outbound license and third-party runtime obligations must be resolved separately; a README or metadata edit cannot relicense dependencies.
Provenance boundary
DESCRIPTION identifies Seongho Bae as author/creator and Tae-Yong Yoo as thesis contributor (ths, ctb). Before changing kaefa's own outbound license, inspect git/file-level contribution provenance and confirm the rights needed for relicensing. Do not infer relicensing authority solely from current organization ownership.
Required outcome
Establish a commercially intake-compatible source and runtime graph without changing the scientific estimands merely to satisfy licensing policy.
Acceptance requires:
- complete first-party contribution/provenance review sufficient for any Apache-2.0 or MIT relicensing decision;
- complete direct/transitive runtime/build/vendored license inventory for the intended distribution model;
- removal/replacement of GPL/LGPL/AGPL-family runtime, build, vendored, copied-source, and derivative obligations under the organization policy, including the current
mirt boundary;
- numerical regression/recovery evidence demonstrating that replacement estimation/item-fit/search behavior preserves the intentionally supported kaefa contracts;
- package metadata and any root license/NOTICE files agreeing exactly with the resulting grant and attribution obligations;
- R CMD check, fast/full tests, recovery tests, package/SBOM/provenance/security checks on the replacement graph;
- README/docs clearly separating kaefa source licensing from third-party software.
Do not close this by suppressing license inventory output, treating GPL commercial-use permission as equivalent to the organization's no-GPL-family policy, or moving the same GPL implementation behind a process/container boundary without resolving the intake policy.
Problem
README/public-surface due diligence found that kaefa is not currently compatible with ContextualWisdomLab's no-GPL-family commercial intake baseline.
Current package metadata on protected development lineage declares:
License: GPL-3for kaefa itself;mirt (>= 1.27), a GPL-family dependency used throughout the numerical/model-fitting path;There is no root
LICENSEfile that independently grants Apache-2.0 or MIT. The repository's own outbound license and third-party runtime obligations must be resolved separately; a README or metadata edit cannot relicense dependencies.Provenance boundary
DESCRIPTIONidentifies Seongho Bae as author/creator and Tae-Yong Yoo as thesis contributor (ths,ctb). Before changing kaefa's own outbound license, inspect git/file-level contribution provenance and confirm the rights needed for relicensing. Do not infer relicensing authority solely from current organization ownership.Required outcome
Establish a commercially intake-compatible source and runtime graph without changing the scientific estimands merely to satisfy licensing policy.
Acceptance requires:
mirtboundary;Do not close this by suppressing license inventory output, treating GPL commercial-use permission as equivalent to the organization's no-GPL-family policy, or moving the same GPL implementation behind a process/container boundary without resolving the intake policy.