Hi, There are (sometimes creative) ways that one can combine proprietary code with GPL code, without running afoul of the GPL, I assume this is the case with h2o -- but I have difficulty seeing that this would be the case with blue sky. For example:
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0-faq.en.html#MereAggregation Kind regards On Tue, 28 Jun 2022 at 11:44, Tom Woolman <twool...@ontargettek.com> wrote: > Hi. I am not a lawyer and I didn't stay at a Holiday Inn last night, but > I don't think this is a GPL violation. The closest analogy for non-GPL > release packages that comes to mind is with h2o. h2o is proprietary (for > profit) that is also simultaneously released on CRAN; their business > model is consulting services for selling support and app development for > h2o-enabled models, but they allow free use of the core algorithm > without paying a license fee. > > I'm a huge fan of h2o and have used their GBM and MLP algorithms to > build models for my two most recent published papers (in press). I > suspect that this type of hybrid freeware/retained rights framework > might be the future for some of the larger, more scalable and robust > library package releases. It seems to also mitigate somewhat the issue > of abandonware packages, because people are throwing some bucks into the > tip jar via enterprise support license subscriptions. > > Which reminds me that RStudio also does something similar :) > > > > > On 2022-06-27 20:06, Andrew Simons wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I notice that v10 of BlueSky Statistics is quite tightly integrated > > with R, > > but is not released under a GPL compatible license. > > > > Do people think this represents a violation of the GPL? > > > > Kind regards, > > > > Andrew > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel