On Apr 7, 2011, at 16:36 , Matthew Dowle 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?
As I understand it, they believe that it falls under the "mere aggregation" exception at the end of sec.2, and they believe that their plugins are not "derived works", but add-ons. The legal hair-splitting is rather painful... -- 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.
