[R] R licence

[Tobias Verbeke]

On 04/07/2011 04:46 PM, Ista Zahn wrote:

> I don't think R-help is the appropriate place for this question.
> Probably you will have more luck at http://www.theattorneysforum.com/
> or some such.

I would hope, though, there are means for community members
to express their concerns in some medium of the community.

Fortes fortuna iuvat!

Best,
Tobias

> On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 10:36 AM, Matthew Dowle<mdowle at mdowle.plus.com>  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?
>>
>> 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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