Peter, If the proprietary part of REvolution's product is ok, then surely Stanislav's suggestion is too. No?
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.
