Le jeudi 27 octobre 2016 13:10:17 UTC+2, François a écrit : > > It is a most interesting point because it explain why > the R binary installed from epel for RH7.1 and family > isn’t linked to openssl. >
How old is RH7.1 ? The introduction of the libcurl requirement dates from the R 3.3.0 release, (May 3, 2016). I note that Debian (notoriously twitchy about license issues) didn't seem to have any qualms packaging 3.3.0, nor 3.3.1. > If they don’t have a rock solid argument, and even if they > have, there may not be anymore official R packages from big > league binary distros. Unless they patch R, their legal arm > will forbid it. > I'm not aware of any such move on Debian. > > So either they will stop distribute R or they will patch > en-masse. > Somehow, I doubt it. Again, why not ask the R core team how they reconcile OpenSSL and GPL'd R ? They are a much larger group than we are ; I doubt that the "IANAL" holds in their case : if they had any doubts, they probably have consulted people who AAL. -- Emmanuel Charpentier > > If they don’t patch, you may still be able to find a R > package for your distro but it won’t be approved by the > distro. > > François > > > On 27/10/2016, at 23:22, Emmanuel Charpentier <emanuel.c...@gmail.com > <javascript:>> wrote: > > > > So, before coming to these extremities, I'd like to explore two avenues > : > > Question the R Core Team to know how they reconcile their DPL 2-3 > license and teir use of OpenSSL, and discuss if we can use the same > loophole as they did. In which case, all is fine and dandy... > > Excise R proprio dictu and keep the R interface(s) as optional, > reworking them to use an externally-installed R. And get rid of the damn > beast... > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
