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" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... > 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"<[email protected]> wrote in message >> news:[email protected]... >> > >> > 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: [email protected] Priv: [email protected] >> > >> >> ______________________________________________ >> [email protected] mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >> PLEASE do read the posting guide >> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
