Re: [Rd] Closed-source non-free ParallelR ?

2009-04-24 Thread Ian Fellows
>Still, if they have code that is compiled and linked to R at running >time, then that code must be under the GPL. Again, this is the FSF >?interpretation and certainly not R-core's, not even mine. >[...] Well, not quite. R.h RDefines.h and RInternals.h are LGPL, so as long as the hooks go throug

Re: [Rd] Closed-source non-free ParallelR ?

2009-04-23 Thread Ian Fellows
Assuming that the foundation does not want to deviate from the FSF interpretation, there would still be value in clarifying its position vis-à-vis how the license applies to R specifically. For example the FSF foundation claims that linking to a library (even in an interpreted environment) makes

Re: [Rd] Possible GPL Violation

2008-10-22 Thread Ian Fellows
re I'm going astray (as I go astray often). -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Barry Rowlingson Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2008 2:18 PM To: Ian Fellows Cc: r-devel@r-project.org Subject: Re: [Rd] Possible GPL Violation > It seems unl

[Rd] Possible GPL Violation

2008-10-22 Thread Ian Fellows
Hi All, I was cruising around today, and came across a company (ZumaStat) that adds additional statistics functionality to SPSS. >From the Website: http://www.zumastat.com/robust_statistics.htm "ZumaStat provides a user friendly interface to access powerful statistical programs on robu