R Source Code Request Office For National Statistics UK

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There are no restrictions needed. Any of your staff can view the  
(open) source code just as any other member of the human race with  
access to to an Interenet connection may do so.

The released version:
http://cran.r-project.org/src/base/R-2/R-2.14.0.tar.gz

The development version:
ftp://ftp.stat.math.ethz.ch/Software/R/
David, member of the human race and the all-volunteer, trans-national  
"R Support Team".

On Dec 21, 2011, at 8:06 AM, David Samuel wrote:

> To R Support Team,
>
> ONS would like a restricted number of its IT staff to view the  
> source code
> for the latest version of your software, to check it against our  
> source
> code security guidelines.The source code will be securely stored with
> access limited.
>
> ONS is quite happy to agree that we would not
> - copy or change your source code without your agreement
> - share the source code with anyone outside ONS
> - communicate the knowledge we acquire to anyone outside of ONS
> - infringe your intellectual property rights in any way.
>
> If there are any other conditions you would like to apply we are very
> happy to discuss them.
>
> Could you please let me know if ONS would be allowed to view your
> software's source code?
>
> I would appreciate if you could reply at your earliest convenience.
>
> Regards,
> David Samuel
>
> ONS
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David Winsemius, MD
West Hartford, CT

To R Support Team,

ONS would like a restricted number of its IT staff to view the source code 
for the latest version of your software, to check it against our source 
code security guidelines.The source code will be securely stored with 
access limited.

ONS is quite happy to agree that we would not 
- copy or change your source code without your agreement
- share the source code with anyone outside ONS
- communicate the knowledge we acquire to anyone outside of ONS
- infringe your intellectual property rights in any way.

If there are any other conditions you would like to apply we are very 
happy to discuss them.

Could you please let me know if ONS would be allowed to view your 
software's source code?

I would appreciate if you could reply at your earliest convenience.

Regards,
David Samuel
David,

R is open source software (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_software), so there is no need to restrict access to the source code, unlike with proprietary applications (eg. SAS). Anyone can download and view it.

The latest stable release version of the code is available in a tarball at:

  http://cran.r-project.org/

under the "Source Code for all Platforms" section.

Enjoy.

Marc Schwartz
There are no restrictions needed. Any of your staff can view the (open)
source code just as any other member of the human race
I do not think the GPL excludes other species ...

 > with access to to
an Interenet connection may do so.
Oh, you may get it printed or on some data storage medium from someone 
else (although the former would really be a waste of paper in the end).

Best,
Uwe
The released version:
http://cran.r-project.org/src/base/R-2/R-2.14.0.tar.gz

The development version:
ftp://ftp.stat.math.ethz.ch/Software/R/

Em 21/12/2011 11:22, Uwe Ligges escreveu:

On 21.12.2011 14:25, David Winsemius wrote:
There are no restrictions needed. Any of your staff can view the (open)
source code just as any other member of the human race
I do not think the GPL excludes other species ...

Since the null hypothesis is that only the human race is able to read 
the content. . .
On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 1:06 PM, David Samuel
To R Support Team,
Could you please let me know if ONS would be allowed to view your
software's source code?
If proof was ever needed that people don't read software license
agreements, this is it.

 Is there a license that forces you to read the source code before
using the software? I'd license my stuff under that:

THE BAZ PUBLIC LICENSE (hereinafter the BPL)

Under the terms of the BPL you MUST first read all source code and get
a pretty good understanding of what it all does before using THE
SOFTWARE. You MUST report bugs or problems to THE AUTHOR but you MUST
NOT expect them to be fixed. You MUST fix them YOURSELF if you think
you may be technically capable or if YOU think YOU are a better
programmer than THE AUTHOR. Otherwise YOU must SHUT UP.

Barry (hereinbefore Baz)