On Sat, Oct 03, 2015 at 09:23:40AM +0200, Jonathon Love wrote: > On 3/10/2015 12:04 am, Santiago Vila wrote: > > 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? > > but the kernel a special case, because it falls under the system library > exception (?) > > [...]
No, when I said "using the kernel" I was referring to this: https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/COPYING NOTE! This copyright does *not* cover user programs that use kernel services by normal system calls - this is merely considered normal use of the kernel, and does *not* fall under the heading of "derived work". This is not an "exception", it's just a clarification. The way I see it, your package just uses other R packages, but it's not a derived work of them.
