Re: [R] Is R GPL or LGPL (or can I write a commercial front end to R)?

2010-08-06 Thread Tom Quarendon
I think I've probably got what I need from this thread now ("get legal advice" :-) ). Rest assured for those that are concerned (and thank you for your concern) that we'd get advice if we felt we needed it. Thanks for all your responses! Tom Quarendon. -Original Mes

Re: [R] Is R GPL or LGPL (or can I write a commercial front end to R)?

2010-08-06 Thread Tom Quarendon
rcial add-on packages. TomQ. -Original Message- From: David Smith [mailto:da...@revolutionanalytics.com] Sent: 06 August 2010 16:56 To: Tom Quarendon Cc: Marc Schwartz; r-help@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R] Is R GPL or LGPL (or can I write a commercial front end to R)? Tom, I would str

Re: [R] Is R GPL or LGPL (or can I write a commercial front end to R)?

2010-08-06 Thread Tom Quarendon
s a native library as a way of providing R functionality, it would appear to say that this native library has to be distributed with a GPL license. -Original Message- From: Marc Schwartz [mailto:marc_schwa...@me.com] Sent: 06 August 2010 16:10 To: Tom Quarendon Cc: Tal Galili; r-help@r-project

Re: [R] Is R GPL or LGPL (or can I write a commercial front end to R)?

2010-08-06 Thread Tom Quarendon
ail.com] Sent: 06 August 2010 12:28 To: Tom Quarendon Cc: Duncan Murdoch; r-help@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R] Is R GPL or LGPL (or can I write a commercial front end to R)? >From what I've seen on other OSS project, GPL can be a bit viral, making it >(purposefully) difficult for s

Re: [R] Is R GPL or LGPL (or can I write a commercial front end to R)?

2010-08-06 Thread Tom Quarendon
PL. And if there is any third party code built in as part of R (don't know whether there is) that is also GPL, then that's even more reason to believe that R.dll has to be covered by GPL, and not LGPL. -Original Message- From: Duncan Murdoch [mailto:murdoch.dun...@gmail.com] Se

Re: [R] Is R GPL or LGPL (or can I write a commercial front end to R)?

2010-08-06 Thread Tom Quarendon
ch [mailto:murdoch.dun...@gmail.com] Sent: 06 August 2010 11:47 To: Tom Quarendon Cc: r-help@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R] Is R GPL or LGPL (or can I write a commercial front end to R)? Tom Quarendon wrote: > Note I'm not asking for any legal advice here obviously, simply what the &

[R] Is R GPL or LGPL (or can I write a commercial front end to R)?

2010-08-06 Thread Tom Quarendon
Note I'm not asking for any legal advice here obviously, simply what the intention of the R foundation is with regard to allowing commercial connection to R. I've looked at various threads on the r-devel archive and it looks like this may have been discussed before, but as far as could tell, no

[R] R memory usage and size limits

2009-02-05 Thread Tom Quarendon
I have a general question about R's usage or memory and what limits exist on the size of datasets it can deal with. My understanding was that all object in a session are held in memory. This implies that you're limited in the size of datasets that you can process by the amount of memory you've g