R-beta: Hmisc and R

[herve dreau]

Hello,
I want to try  the Design and Hmisc library from FE Harrell but,
i have  trouble with the copyright for the library Hmisc  :

in the home of the author  : 

http://fharrell.biostat.virginia.edu/s/unix/

in the file Hmisc.README 

###COPYRIGHT NOTICE

###You may not port code in the Hmisc library to R.
Aie, Why ????
###You may distribute these functions freely as long as you do so
without
###financial gain, that you acknowledge the source, and that you
###communicate improvements to the author.

and in a file find in statlib :
http://www.stat.cmu.edu/S/Harrell/Doc/Hmisc.Overview.txt
there's a less restrictive copyright :

### GENERAL DISCLAIMER
### 
### This program is free software; you can redistribute it

### and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public
### License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
### version 1, or (at your option) any later version.
### 
whith no mention to an interdiction to port Hmisc to R
Can I use (try to port to R [but I think i have too little knowledge to
do that]) the Hmisc library found in statlib ??


I don't understand this opposition to R, can a people break itself a
GPL'ed copyright ? 
 And there's  no such statement for the Design library, and there's
already a port to R for this library in
http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/R/src/contrib/Devel 

No flame

Hervé Dréau
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