On 07/08/2011 07:58 AM, Spencer Graves wrote:
On 7/8/2011 4:26 AM, Federico Calboli wrote:
On 8 Jul 2011, at 12:06, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
On 11-07-08 6:20 AM, Federico Calboli wrote:
HI All,
I have written and succesfully uploaded a new package. The licence it
is under is 'GPL' --no version. My assumption is, since all the code is
written in R the licence R used for R would affect the code (hence my
"GPL" stands for "whatever version of the GPL R is under")
I am happy with the licencing I used, but I'd like to ask if there is
any transitive propery of IP licencing or if I am mistaken.
I believe you are mistaken: your package is your code, so the license
someone else used is irrelevant. I would interpret 'GPL' to mean
'whatever version of GPL the user finds to be convenient'. So if GPL v1
(which I've never actually seen) or GPL v4 (which has not been released)
contained some right that I liked, I would assume that you've granted me
that right.
Ok, thanks for that. I though that, since R in under GPL-v2, I can only
release my code under GPL-v2 because the code is written in R and
probably qualifies as a derivative work.
Did you include someone else's GPL-vx code (possibly modified by
you) as part of your code in a way that someone could claim that your code
does NOT have a useful functionality and independent existence without
that? I'm not an attorney, but I have read the GPL and discussed it with
attorneys, and it's my understanding that the definition of "derivative
work" encompasses essentially what I just described. Another example:
According to the Wikipedia article on Linux, the (first) GPL was written
for the GNU Linux project. In that context, you can NOT charge someone
for Linux nor for any modification of it you may make, because such
modifications would make it a derivative work. However, if you can run
your own code written in whatever language under Linux, because presumably
your code has an existence independent of Linux and could theoretically
run (with modifications) on some other operating system.
GPL is not about compensation, it is about distribution and the rights and
responsibilities ensuing.
Hope this helps.
Spencer
On uploading the new version (a matter of days), I will specify the GPL
version.
Bw
Federico
Duncan Murdoch
bw
Federico
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