OK. Can I say once more. I'm not after legal advice! That I can get elsewhere! We understand the need for legal advice and so far our legal advice has been sound on other matters.
I was simply trying to understand the apparent contradiction between the GPL and the attempt to allow commercial add-on packages. TomQ. -----Original Message----- From: David Smith [mailto:da...@revolutionanalytics.com] Sent: 06 August 2010 16:56 To: Tom Quarendon Cc: Marc Schwartz; r-help@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R] Is R GPL or LGPL (or can I write a commercial front end to R)? Tom, I would strongly echo the advice of Duncan and Marc and others already on this thread to seek expert legal advice on this issue. At Revolution we rely on the expertise of Mark Radcliffe, the General Legal Counsel of the Open Source Initiative. (Additional information here: http://www.revolutionanalytics.com/downloads/gpl-sources.php .) Because GPL issues draw on aspects of copyright law, contract law, and other legal domains (that can also vary by jurisdiction), legal advice with expertise in all the relevant areas is essential. Hope this helps, # David Smith -- David M Smith <da...@revolutionanalytics.com> VP of Marketing, Revolution Analytics http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com Tel: +1 (650) 330-0553 x205 (Palo Alto, CA, USA) __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 5347 (20100806) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 5347 (20100806) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
