[R] R licence

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 07/04/2011 10:36 AM, Matthew Dowle wrote:
> Duncan,
>
> Letting you know then that I just don't see how the first paragraph here :
>
> http://www.revolutionanalytics.com/downloads/gpl-sources.php
>
> is compatible with clause 2(b) here :
>
> http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html
>
> Perhaps somebody could explain why it is?

No, I certainly wouldn't attempt that, but thanks for the information.

Duncan Murdoch

> Matthew
>
>
> "Duncan Murdoch"<murdoch.duncan at gmail.com>  wrote in message
> news:4D9DA9FF.9020103 at gmail.com...
> >  On 07/04/2011 7:47 AM, Matthew Dowle wrote:
> >>  Peter,
> >>
> >>  If the proprietary part of REvolution's product is ok, then surely
> >>  Stanislav's suggestion is too. No?
> >
> >  Revolution has said that they believe they follow the GPL, and they
> >  haven't been challenged on that.   If you think that they don't, you could
> >  let an R copyright holder know what they're doing that's a license
> >  violation.
> >
> >  My opinion of Stanislav's question is that he doesn't give enough
> >  information to answer.  If he is planning to distribute R as part of his
> >  product, he needs to follow the GPL.  If not, I don't think any R
> >  copyright holder has anything to complain about.
> >
> >  Duncan Murdoch
> >
> >>  Matthew
> >>
> >>
> >>  "peter dalgaard"<PDalgd at gmail.com>   wrote in message
> >>  news:BE157CF5-9B4B-45A0-A7D4-363B774F114A at gmail.com...
> >>  >
> >>  >   On Apr 7, 2011, at 09:45 , Stanislav Bek wrote:
> >>  >
> >>  >>   Hi,
> >>  >>
> >>  >>   is it possible to use some statistic computing by R in proprietary
> >>  >>   software?
> >>  >>   Our software is written in c#, and we intend to use
> >>  >>   http://rdotnet.codeplex.com/
> >>  >>   to get R work there. Especially we want to use loess function.
> >>  >
> >>  >   You need to take legal advice to be certain, but offhand I would say
> >>  >  that
> >>  >   this kind of circumvention of the GPL is _not_ allowed.
> >>  >
> >>  >   It all depends on whether the end product is a "derivative work", in
> >>  >  which
> >>  >   case, the whole must be distributed under a GPL-compatible licence.
> >>  >  The
> >>  >   situation around GPL-incompatible plug-ins or plug-ins interfacing to
> >>  >  R in
> >>  >   GPL -incompatible software is legally murky, but using R as a
> >>  >  subroutine
> >>  >   library for proprietary code is clearly crossing the line, as far as I
> >>  >  can
> >>  >   tell.
> >>  >
> >>  >   -- 
> >>  >   Peter Dalgaard
> >>  >   Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School
> >>  >   Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark
> >>  >   Phone: (+45)38153501
> >>  >   Email: pd.mes at cbs.dk  Priv: PDalgd at gmail.com
> >>  >
> >>
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