On 7/28/2008 2:32 PM, zerfetzen wrote:
Hi,
I use R at home, and am interested in using it at my work company (which is
in the Fortune 100). I began the request, and our legal team has given some
gruff about the open source license. Not boring you with the details here,
but I used some info on gnu.org as a rebuttal, and someone at the company
replied that the generalities of GNU GPL may differ from R's specific GNU
GPL license, and that I should refer specifically to it, and it should be on
the CRAN website.
I may be blind, but haven't seen such a document. Does one exist, and how
may I obtain it? I believe they are wrong. Our legal team is notorious for
being overly conservative, and I'm personally betting they think I won't
look into it, and then they won't have to deal with it. But I will, and I
want to use R. Thanks.
PS
Sorry if the document was posted and obvious, and I simply couldn't find it.
Thanks.
It is distributed with R, in the file COPYING. If you haven't installed
R yet, you can get just that one file from
https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/COPYING
That is the current development version of R, but that particular file
hasn't changed since January 2006, and even then it was only a trivial
change to the address of the FSF. The substance of the file hasn't
changed since 1997, when our version tracking began.
Duncan Murdoch
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