On Fri, Oct 02, 2015 at 09:34:10PM +0200, Jonathon Love wrote: > i'm talking with upstream about the r-cran-afex package, and it seems to > me that it violates the GPL, but upstream isn't convinced. > > afex is GPL >= 3, and it depends on (and calls functions from) R > packages which are GPL2-only. > > is this "textbook GPL violation"?
I don't think so. A system call to the kernel, for example, is considered to be "using" the kernel, and will not make your program to be GPL-2. Is this really different from that?
