On 3/10/2015 10:27 am, Santiago Vila wrote: > The way I see it, your package just uses other R packages, but it's > not a derived work of them.
yeah, but by the same logic, i could just "use" a GPL .dll or .so from my proprietary application, or just include/"use" a bunch of GPL functions in my proprietary software. the FAQ: "If the modules are included in the same executable file, they are definitely combined in one program. If modules are designed to run linked together in a shared address space, that almost surely means combining them into one program. By contrast, pipes, sockets and command-line arguments are communication mechanisms normally used between two separate programs. So when they are used for communication, the modules normally are separate programs. But if the semantics of the communication are intimate enough, exchanging complex internal data structures, that too could be a basis to consider the two parts as combined into a larger program." https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#MereAggregation it seems to me that calling functions (internal data structures?) belongs to the former category, rather than the latter. thoughts? jonathon -- JASP - A Fresh Way to Do Statistics http://jasp-stats.org/ -- How happy is he born and taught, That serveth not another's will; Whose armour is his honest thought, And simple truth his utmost skill This man is freed from servile bands Of hope to rise, or fear to fall: Lord of himself, though not of lands, And, having nothing, yet hath all. -- Sir Henry Wotton
