On 8 Jul 2011, at 16:12, Barry Rowlingson wrote: > 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.
The vast majority of CRAN libraries seem to be released under some sort of GPL version. I never seen a license though. > > Barry -- Federico C. F. Calboli Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics Imperial College, St. Mary's Campus Norfolk Place, London W2 1PG Tel +44 (0)20 75941602 Fax +44 (0)20 75943193 f.calboli [.a.t] imperial.ac.uk f.calboli [.a.t] 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.
