R-beta: Hmisc and R
herve dreau
dreau at hbroussais.fr
Thu Aug 20 17:33:30 CEST 1998
Hello,
I want to try the Design and Hmisc library from FE Harrell but,
i have trouble with the copyright for the library Hmisc :
in the home of the author :
http://fharrell.biostat.virginia.edu/s/unix/
in the file Hmisc.README
###COPYRIGHT NOTICE
###You may not port code in the Hmisc library to R.
Aie, Why ????
###You may distribute these functions freely as long as you do so
without
###financial gain, that you acknowledge the source, and that you
###communicate improvements to the author.
and in a file find in statlib :
http://www.stat.cmu.edu/S/Harrell/Doc/Hmisc.Overview.txt
there's a less restrictive copyright :
### GENERAL DISCLAIMER
###
### This program is free software; you can redistribute it
### and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public
### License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
### version 1, or (at your option) any later version.
###
whith no mention to an interdiction to port Hmisc to R
Can I use (try to port to R [but I think i have too little knowledge to
do that]) the Hmisc library found in statlib ??
I don't understand this opposition to R, can a people break itself a
GPL'ed copyright ?
And there's no such statement for the Design library, and there's
already a port to R for this library in
http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/R/src/contrib/Devel
No flame
Hervé Dréau
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