[R] S-PLUS 8 beta program [repost]

Philippe Grosjean phgrosjean at sciviews.org
Thu Mar 30 00:01:41 CEST 2006


David Smith wrote:
> The GPL code is available as separately-downloaded packages for S-PLUS, as
> has been done for many years. My own Oswald library for S-PLUS was published
> under the GPL in 1997, for example, and many other authors produce
> open-source libraries for S-PLUS under a variety of licenses.  The only
> difference is that they will be packaged as, well, packages rather than
> libraries.
> 
> # David Smith

Thank you for the explanation. The fact that GPL code is distributed 
*separately* from S-PLUS is the key point here.

PhG




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