Joe Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've considered relicensing PL/R with a BSD license, but I haven't been > able to decide whether I really can do that given libR's GPL status, and > I'm afraid it might tick off the R core developers if I do.
The direction I see this going in wouldn't require relicensing. I don't see any problem with having both BSD and GPL code in our CVS. What we want is to try to keep them separate in what we ship: the core tarball should include only BSD code, but other tarballs could be GPL or LGPL or whatever. Given that PL/R depends on linking to a GPL'd R library, it'd be pretty pointless to insist on PL/R being BSD anyway --- to use it, you'd still have to obey the restrictions of the GPL. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly