Philippe Grosjean wrote:
John W. Eaton wrote:This thread has gone to be centered around the GUI of R and what it is good and bad.
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,
Philippe Grosjean
However, is the above statement correct? To me it seems like there is a fully working R-proxy dll for windows and other ways to interface against R that only binds to LGPL components. You can build completely proprietary packages and front-ends to R without having to make sources available, as long as you distribute changes to R itself as source.
In my opinion anyone can be to R what S+ is to S. Can any developer comment on this?
Best regards,
David
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