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Subject: Re: [Rd] GPLv2-only code in R?
From: Prof Brian Ripley <ripley () stats ! ox ! ac ! uk>
Date: 2011-04-28 15:07:23
Message-ID: alpine.LFD.2.02.1104281606550.12223 () toucan ! stats ! ox ! ac ! uk
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On Thu, 28 Apr 2011, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> On 27/04/2011 12:55 PM, Brett Smith wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm sending this to R-devel under the guideline that the ensuing
>> discussion would probably be unintelligible to people who aren't
>> programmers. If that's not right, I apologize.
>>
>> <http://www.r-project.org/Licenses/> says in part: "Some files are
>> licensed under 'GPL (version 2 or later)', which includes GPL-3. See the
>> comments in the files to see if this applies." This implies that there
>> are files in R that do *not* have the "or later" language, and can only
>> be used under GPLv2.
>>
>> I've done some initial searches for files in the R source code that
>> don't have the "or later" language, but haven't turned anything up yet.
>> If anybody knows of any off-hand and could point me to them, I'd
>> appreciate it.
>
> Package rpart is GPL-2-only in R 2.13.0, but is more liberally licensed in
> R-patched and R-devel. The survival package was GPL-2-only until R 2.12.1.
And all of this in the COPYRIGHTS file for each version of R.
>
> Duncan Murdoch
>
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