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....@cbs.dk Priv: pda...@gmail.com ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org 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.
