On Thu, 18 Nov 2004, Philippe Grosjean wrote:

John W. Eaton wrote:
On 17-Nov-2004, Philippe Grosjean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

| - There is no possibility to make a commercial GUI for R (thanks to
| the GPL),

This is false.  Please don't confuse "commercial" (Red Hat
and SuSE GNU/Linux distributions are commercial software)
with "proprietary".

jwe

Ooops! Sorry, and thank you for correcting me. I mean "proprietary", of course. Best,


And it isn't obvious that it is true even if you mean proprietary. A GUI that ran R just by sending commands to stdin and getting results from stdout could clearly be proprietary without violating the GPL. The question of exactly what level of closer integration is allowed would get complicated and I won't speculate.


        -thomas

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