On Apr 7, 2011, at 09:45 , Stanislav Bek wrote:
Hi,
is it possible to use some statistic computing by R in proprietary
software?
Our software is written in c#, and we intend to use
http://rdotnet.codeplex.com/
to get R work there. Especially we want to use loess function.
You need to take legal advice to be certain, but offhand I would say that
this kind of circumvention of the GPL is _not_ allowed.
It all depends on whether the end product is a "derivative work", in which
case, the whole must be distributed under a GPL-compatible licence. The
situation around GPL-incompatible plug-ins or plug-ins interfacing to R in
GPL -incompatible software is legally murky, but using R as a subroutine
library for proprietary code is clearly crossing the line, as far as I can
tell.
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