The law books were more interesting than the girlfriend...
Ouch!!!
But this does raise one of the issues I have with the GPL and the GPL family of
licenses - the constant confusion around what is and what is not permissible.
It's a gray area (possibly deliberately so), and most coversations end
2008/10/22 Ian Fellows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Perhaps my understanding of GPL is lacking, but isn't this the reason that
> GPL is different for LGPL? Linking to functions is allowed in the lesser
> license, but not in GPL.
>
> From the gpl faq:
>
Ian Fellows wrote:
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 stat
re I'm going astray (as I go astray often).
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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
> It seems unlikely that the functionality of this program can be separated
> from the R-packages upon which it relies, thus making them one work subject
> to GPL. Does anyone have any experience with this software/company? Any
> thoughts?
They're not distributing R itself:
"You must have R on
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
