On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 4:07 PM, Federico Calboli <f.calb...@imperial.ac.uk> wrote: > On 8 Jul 2011, at 15:56, Spencer Graves wrote: >>> 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? > > Nope. Nevertheless my code would not have a functionality without R, hence I > feel GPL v2, the same R is under, is appropiate for my package.
Note that whatever GPL version you want to release your code as you can't just say "This code is released under GPL-blah". You also have to include a copy of the relevant GPL license, usually in a file called LICENSE or COPYING. I think. A lawyer I am not. Barry ______________________________________________ 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.
