On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 10:09:52AM -0400, Allen S. Rout wrote: > Gabor Csardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > No problem, libxml2 sources are available, that is fine with the > > GPL. They need not be included in the _same_ package as the > > binaries. > > This is a topic of vigorous debate at the moment. r-devel is not a > good forum in which to repeat the debate, but look at > > http://software.newsforge.com/software/06/06/23/1728205.shtml > > and then google around for topics like 'linux distributions provide > source'. > > In any case, I'd recommend against a blase attitude that, because the > code is available somewhere, you have no responsibility to distribute > it yourself.
In the meanwhile we agreed in a solution. (Basically i'll do what Uwe tells me to do: the source R package will not include any libxml code but the windows binary package will contain binaries.) I'm not very much interested in these debates anyway... but thanks for the pointer. Gabor -- Csardi Gabor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MTA RMKI, ELTE TTK ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
