[R-gui] GPL licensing issues with a commercial R GUI

Adrian Dusa dusa.adrian at gmail.com
Tue May 13 15:43:46 CEST 2008


On Tuesday 13 May 2008, Michael Lawrence wrote:
> Rserve would be a convenient means to get around dynamic linking.
>
> The "derivative work" clause of the GPL has never been clear to me. Where
> to draw the line? Why should piping data between processes be treated any
> different from dynamic linking? They're just different interfaces to
> achieve approximately the same effect.

Since version 15, I believe, SPSS incorporated R syntax (more exactly it 
allows using R code in the syntax window).
When using R code, SPSS is nothing but a GUI, so there is at least one good 
example of having a comercial product using R...

Adrian

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