On Sunday 17 September 2006 1:53 am, you wrote:
> I'm not sure what you are asking, but in general R's GPL license is
> completely irrelevant unless you are distributing R. If you're
> writing a package and distributing only your own work, you can
> license it as you like.
>[snip]
I realize how
It is my understanding that R is licensed under the GPL with the
exception of a few header files for the purposes of linking binary code
with R under non-GPL licenses.
However, the R-base package itself is licensed under the GPL, as are
many (but not all) packages in CRAN. Furthermore, basical