On 27 November 2013 at 11:51, Thomas Kluyver wrote: | Can I suggest that we bring the discussion back to rpy2? People have been
Yes please! The rest of the thread is by now mostly pure trolling. | arguing about the abstract merits of different licenses for decades, and we're | not going to resolve that debate here. | | R is GPL licensed, while most of the Python ecosystem in which people use rpy2 | uses BSD style licenses. I'd argue that it doesn't make sense for rpy2 to use a | less permissive license (AGPL) than either of the things it connects. AGPL was | also designed for things running as web services, and while rpy2 can be used on | a website, it's not the typical way to use it. | | There's a question over whether the GPL license applied to R requires rpy2 to | be GPL licensed as well. In my opinion, the intent of the GPL does cover rpy2, | whether or not the letter of it does. The FSF reckons that dynamic linking is | enough to create a 'combined work': http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html# | GPLStaticVsDynamic This is not mere dynamic linking (of extending something with an occassional, possibly optional use of something else.) This is _embedding_ as RPy2 embeds R from an outer Python application (just like my RInside project does for C++). So you end up _running_ R. And hence inherit its license. This is not my project (and I merely look after its integration into Debian and thereby also Ubuntu) but I would want to make it very clear that tools like RPy2 (or RInside) cannot be used to circumvent or weaken the R license. Dirk -- Dirk Eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org | http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rapidly troubleshoot problems before they affect your business. Most IT organizations don't have a clear picture of how application performance affects their revenue. With AppDynamics, you get 100% visibility into your Java,.NET, & PHP application. Start your 15-day FREE TRIAL of AppDynamics Pro! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=84349351&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ rpy-list mailing list rpy-list@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rpy-list
