[R] The hidden costs of GPL software?

Peter Dalgaard p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk
Fri Nov 19 13:13:36 CET 2004


"Philippe Grosjean" <phgrosjean at sciviews.org> writes:

> Peter,
> 
> You don't need the ActiveState Tcl distribution to add extensions. If you
> compile extensions yourself (and these extensions have a compatible
> license), then you have no problems... (well, almost! You must make sure
> those extensions compile correctly on all supproted platforms). This is
> exactly what I do in the tcltk2 package.
> Best,
> 
> Philippe Grosjean 

I know, it's just that it feels silly that we cannot build on the fine
work of ActiveState.

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