[Rd] Importing csv files

Gabor Grothendieck ggrothendieck at myway.com
Thu Dec 23 23:57:04 CET 2004


> 
> >
> > My understanding is that David is not distributing dataload any more, though 
> > I would not like to discourage commercial vendors (such as providers of 
> > Stat/Transfer and DBMSCOPY) from providing .rda output as an option. I 
> > assume that new code written under GPL would not be a problem. -Frank
> 
> I said `except under GPL'. I am not trying to discourage anyone, just 
> pointing out that GPL has far-ranging implications that are often 
> over-looked.
> 

One way to encourage other software to provide .rda interfaces 
would be to document (or make more visible if such a 
document already exists) the C routines that read and write .rda 
files.



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