I don't think R-help is the appropriate place for this question. Probably you will have more luck at http://www.theattorneysforum.com/ or some such.
Best, Ista On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 10:36 AM, Matthew Dowle <mdo...@mdowle.plus.com> wrote: > Duncan, > > Letting you know then that I just don't see how the first paragraph here : > > http://www.revolutionanalytics.com/downloads/gpl-sources.php > > is compatible with clause 2(b) here : > > http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html > > Perhaps somebody could explain why it is? > > Matthew > > > "Duncan Murdoch" <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com> wrote in message > news:4d9da9ff.9020...@gmail.com... >> On 07/04/2011 7:47 AM, Matthew Dowle wrote: >>> Peter, >>> >>> If the proprietary part of REvolution's product is ok, then surely >>> Stanislav's suggestion is too. No? >> >> Revolution has said that they believe they follow the GPL, and they >> haven't been challenged on that. If you think that they don't, you could >> let an R copyright holder know what they're doing that's a license >> violation. >> >> My opinion of Stanislav's question is that he doesn't give enough >> information to answer. If he is planning to distribute R as part of his >> product, he needs to follow the GPL. If not, I don't think any R >> copyright holder has anything to complain about. >> >> Duncan Murdoch >> >>> Matthew >>> >>> >>> "peter dalgaard"<pda...@gmail.com> wrote in message >>> news:be157cf5-9b4b-45a0-a7d4-363b774f1...@gmail.com... >>> > >>> > 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. >> > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > -- Ista Zahn Graduate student University of Rochester Department of Clinical and Social Psychology http://yourpsyche.org ______________________________________________ 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.
