On Fri, Aug 02, 2013 at 10:31:09PM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:
On Thu, Aug 01, 2013 at 05:53:23PM -0400, Jack Tanner wrote:
> The R Project uses old PSPP code to read SPSS files:
>
> http://stat.ethz.ch/R-manual/R-devel/library/foreign/html/read.spss.html
>
> They might want to update their fork, but they can't, because PSPP
> is under GPL v3, and R is GPL v2.
>
> Would the PSPP developers consider making a special release of the
> SPSS reading code under GPL "v2 or later"?
I think that I would be amenable to this. John, you are the other
relevant author of the SPSS reading code in PSPP. Are you willing to
relicense the SPSS reading code to GPLv2+?I would not be tototally against it. But I think a better solution would be to change the licence of R to GPL3+ At the end of the day, the copyright belongs to the FSF, so the decision would lie with them. I did a brief search of the R developer lists, and didn't see any discussion about this. Jack, is this a hypothetical question or is there some serious intent behind it? Are you involved in R development? J' -- PGP Public key ID: 1024D/2DE827B3 fingerprint = 8797 A26D 0854 2EAB 0285 A290 8A67 719C 2DE8 27B3 See http://keys.gnupg.net or any PGP keyserver for public key.
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