[Rd] how to include a windows dll in a package

Allen S. Rout asr at ufl.edu
Wed Aug 16 16:09:52 CEST 2006


Gabor Csardi <csardi at rmki.kfki.hu> writes:

> No problem, libxml2 sources are available, that is fine with the
> GPL.  They need not be included in the _same_ package as the
> binaries.

This is a topic of vigorous debate at the moment.  r-devel is not a
good forum in which to repeat the debate, but look at 

http://software.newsforge.com/software/06/06/23/1728205.shtml

and then google around for topics like 'linux distributions provide
source'.

In any case, I'd recommend against a blase attitude that, because the
code is available somewhere, you have no responsibility to distribute
it yourself.



- Allen S. Rout



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