According to the CRAN contributed packages page, the license for "KernSmooth" is *not* GPL. It is listed as "License: Unlimited distribution (from Dr Wand)." Are there any restrictions on this of any kind? Is there some written license document similar to the GPL license? The reason I'm asking is that the legal beagles in the company I work for are extremely paranoid about this sort of thing, for their own special and wonderful reasons. There is no licensing information in the tarball, either. There are certain situations where I might not be able to use "KernSmooth" as a result. "sm" *is* GPL, fortunately, so there aren't any restrictions placed on me by the aforementioned beagles. But IIRC "sm" doesn't do derivatives and "KernSmooth" does. -- znmeb at aracnet.com (M. Edward Borasky) http://www.aracnet.com/~znmeb Stand-up comedy -- because man does not live by dread alone. -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
License for KernSmooth?
2 messages · M. Edward (Ed) Borasky, Brian Ripley
There *is* licencing information and you have quoted it. Since understanding the implications is your business, I suggest you take advice in your business. I don't see what authority a mailing list could have to help you on this.
On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
According to the CRAN contributed packages page, the license for "KernSmooth" is *not* GPL. It is listed as "License: Unlimited distribution (from Dr Wand)." Are there any restrictions on this of any kind? Is there some written license document similar to the GPL license? The reason I'm asking is that the legal beagles in the company I work for are extremely paranoid about this sort of thing, for their own special and wonderful reasons. There is no licensing information in the tarball, either. There are certain situations where I might not be able to use "KernSmooth" as a result. "sm" *is* GPL, fortunately, so there aren't any restrictions placed on me by the aforementioned beagles. But IIRC "sm" doesn't do derivatives and "KernSmooth" does. -- znmeb at aracnet.com (M. Edward Borasky) http://www.aracnet.com/~znmeb Stand-up comedy -- because man does not live by dread alone. -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
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