[Rd] how to include a windows dll in a package

[Gabor Csardi]

On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 10:09:52AM -0400, Allen S. Rout wrote:
> Gabor Csardi <csardi at rmki.kfki.hu> writes:
> 
> > No problem, libxml2 sources are available, that is fine with the
> > GPL.  They need not be included in the _same_ package as the
> > binaries.
> 
> This is a topic of vigorous debate at the moment.  r-devel is not a
> good forum in which to repeat the debate, but look at 
> 
> http://software.newsforge.com/software/06/06/23/1728205.shtml
> 
> and then google around for topics like 'linux distributions provide
> source'.
> 
> In any case, I'd recommend against a blase attitude that, because the
> code is available somewhere, you have no responsibility to distribute
> it yourself.

In the meanwhile we agreed in a solution. (Basically i'll do what Uwe tells
me to do: the source R package will not include any libxml code but the
windows binary package will contain binaries.) I'm not very much interested
in these debates anyway... but thanks for the pointer.

Gabor

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