Holding back on source code
On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 2:17 AM, Prof Brian Ripley
<ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
On 27/11/2011 23:07, Sachinthaka Abeywardana wrote:
Hi All, A few years back when I was a CSIRO (an Australian research centre) intern I developed a BLAS package for R that uses the GPU. I believe that there is something similar right now, except it uses a few CuBLAS (Nvidia BLAS) routines, but doesnt replace them.
We haven't much idea what 'something similar' refers to.
My question is, is it technically illegal to hold back on source code?
It depends entirely on the licenses involved. ?Nothing prevents Adobe distributing Acrobat without source code, for example. This is the R development list: questions not specific to R are best asked elsewhere (and, to take a recent example, that includes questions about licenses of packages on R-forge or CRAN). ?'Elsewhere' may mean an IP lawyer.
One side-effect of R's GPL-based license is that there are many Copyright holders if you include members of the R core, R Foundation, R package contributors, etc., and any discussion (with an IP lawyer, say) about possible violation of license terms would require input from each of these groups. Perhaps a new mailing list R-license-policy would be helpful... Dominick
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