[R] SCO & R

[Andrew Perrin]

On Thu, 27 May 2004, Greg Tarpinian wrote:

> I apologize if this has been addressed before;
> recently
> I read an article in Forbes which discussed how SCO
> was going after companies that have been using Linux.
> The article made the point that the ideas behind GPL
> are under attack precisely because no one is making
> sure
> that the code being put into the freely avail.
> packages
> isn't owned by someone else.
>
> Here's my question:  Is R vulnerable in any way to the
> sorts of lawsuits that SCO is bringing against the
> Linux community?

No - and neither is anybody else.

http://opensource.org/sco-vs-ibm.html#ftn.id2756929


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