Message-ID: <55685A56.9020502@math.utk.edu>
Date: 2015-05-29T12:23:50Z
From: Drew Schmidt
Subject: [R-pkg-devel] license for package
In-Reply-To: <21864.21490.483375.864681@max.nulle.part>
On 05/29/2015 07:56 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> Lastly, in many cases [eg when you link against libR], the "aggregate work"
> will be under GPL (>= 2) anyway. But within the "aggregate work" the code
> you added can be under a different license (as long as it is compatible).
This is the generally the FSF's interpretation, but others disagree; for
instance http://www.law.washington.edu/lta/swp/law/derivative.html.
In reality, this stuff has never been tested in court, so no one really
knows what the rules are.
-Drew