On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 11:16 AM, Federico Calboli <f.calb...@imperial.ac.uk> wrote: > 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.
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