[Rd] Closed-source non-free ParallelR ?

Ian Fellows ifellows at ucsd.edu
Fri Apr 24 18:48:38 CEST 2009


>Still, if they have code that is compiled and linked to R at running
>time, then that code must be under the GPL. Again, this is the FSF
>?interpretation and certainly not R-core's, not even mine.
>[...]

Well, not quite. R.h RDefines.h and RInternals.h are LGPL, so as long as the
hooks go through these headers, then all is kosher is it not? Otherwise,
what is the point of having them be LGPL?

ian



More information about the R-devel mailing list