Message-ID: <f8e6ff050904220852y4fb9c112o970a44cc8a433e3@mail.gmail.com>
Date: 2009-04-22T15:52:07Z
From: Hadley Wickham
Subject: Closed-source non-free ParallelR ?
In-Reply-To: <ac81d400904220740i5a4adac4l41b1a170c6f27bd7@mail.gmail.com>
> Also, I'm confused about your dimissal of the MCE example. ?If that code was
> a derivative work of R, how could it swap a GPL license for the BSD? ?I
> didn't think such a switch was possible. ?If it was, I'd imagine a lot more
> use of it, as a quick front project could make GPL software into BSD
> software after which all changes could go on behind closed doors.
And there are certainly many existing R packages with
non-free/non-open licenses:
http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/ff/LICENSE
http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/minpack.lm/LICENSE
http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/rngwell19937/LICENSE
http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/SDDA/LICENSE
...
Found with http://www.google.com/search?q=site:cran.r-project.org+cran+%22file+license%22
Hadley
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