[R] Legality of copying from Splus.

[Roger Peng]

> BTW, does anyone else on the list know the license status of code posted
> to the list, e.g. the ebars() function that I posted in response to Rolf's
> inquiry?  How about when that code is later incorporated into a package
> released under a specific license?  For example, the ebars() function I
> posted is part of a toolset for analyses of ecological data that I plan
> to release later this year under the GPL.  Did I relinquish my copyright
> by posting it here without specific reference to it's license for use?

I believe the license status is determined by you and your copyright over
the code is effective immediately (as soon as you post it).  I think most
people who post code here implicitly put it in the public domain, but that
does not need to be the case.

-roger
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On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, Michael Camann wrote:

> On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, Rolf Turner wrote:
> 
> > [Can't anybody ***read*** these days?]
> 
> Evidently I (and others) misunderstood your request.  I thought you were
> asking about the specific function error.bar().  Since your question is
> more general, I assume that you actually have an S-Plus license or that
> you have unlicensed access to S-Plus code.  If that's the case, have you
> ***read*** the copyright?  I should think that it's rather clear on this
> issue.
> 
> While on the topic, I suggest that you read the Free Software Foundation
> GNU Public License, under which R and many (all?) of its contributed
> packages are  released.  It too is quite specific regarding such things as
> how R code  propogates its open source model into deriviative software
> built onto R or R packages licensed under the GPL.
> 
> 
> --Mike C.
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