[Rd] License of Mathlib

cstrato cstrato at aon.at
Tue Aug 24 21:36:48 CEST 2004


Dear Prof Ripley

Thank you for this clarification.

Best regards
Christian Stratowa

Prof Brian D Ripley wrote:

> On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, cstrato wrote:
> 
> 
>>Dear R-Developers
>>
>>I have a question regarding the license of Mathlib:
>>Is the license GPL or LGPL?
>>
>>I am confused, since the file "nmath.h" mentions GPL in the header,
>>while the file "Rmath.h0.in" mentions LGPL in the header.
> 
> 
> More importantly, the C code of the functions is under GPL.
> It is only the public header files (and nmath.h is private) that have LGPL
> in them.  See the file COPYRIGHTS (which you seem not to be aware of).
>



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