I was referring specifically to gputools package:
http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/gputools/index.html which has some
of Nvidias CuBLAS implemented.

What I want to do is release the code and implement the package, and not
get in trouble considering I was with CSIRO when I did it. I guess from all
this what I gather is if I recode it in a different way I should be able to
release it. From memory there were certainly GPL code elements within it.

Thanks for all the help.
Sachin

On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 6:17 PM, Prof Brian Ripley <ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk>wrote:

> On 27/11/2011 23:07, Sachinthaka Abeywardana wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> A few years back when I was a CSIRO (an Australian research centre) intern
>> I developed a BLAS package for R that uses the GPU. I believe that there
>> is
>> something similar right now, except it uses a few CuBLAS (Nvidia BLAS)
>> routines, but doesnt replace them.
>>
>
> We haven't much idea what 'something similar' refers to.
>
>
>  My question is, is it technically illegal to hold back on source code?
>>
>
> It depends entirely on the licenses involved.  Nothing prevents Adobe
> distributing Acrobat without source code, for example.
>
> This is the R development list: questions not specific to R are best asked
> elsewhere (and, to take a recent example, that includes questions about
> licenses of packages on R-forge or CRAN).  'Elsewhere' may mean an IP
> lawyer.
>
>
>  Thanks,
>> Sachin
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