Message-ID: <6FFB29DD-1ACB-4FC3-A250-FF74FE5BD456@gmail.com>
Date: 2011-04-07T14:58:09Z
From: Peter Dalgaard
Subject: R licence
In-Reply-To: <inki59$90g$1@dough.gmane.org>
On Apr 7, 2011, at 16:36 , Matthew Dowle wrote:
> Duncan,
>
> Letting you know then that I just don't see how the first paragraph here :
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> http://www.revolutionanalytics.com/downloads/gpl-sources.php
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> is compatible with clause 2(b) here :
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> http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html
>
> Perhaps somebody could explain why it is?
As I understand it, they believe that it falls under the "mere aggregation" exception at the end of sec.2, and they believe that their plugins are not "derived works", but add-ons. The legal hair-splitting is rather painful...
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