On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 6:48 PM, Ian Fellows <ifell...@ucsd.edu> wrote: > >>Still, if they have code that is compiled and linked to R at running >>time, then that code must be under the GPL. Again, this is the FSF >>?interpretation and certainly not R-core's, not even mine. >>[...] > > Well, not quite. R.h RDefines.h and RInternals.h are LGPL, so as long as the > hooks go through these headers, then all is kosher is it not? Otherwise, > what is the point of having them be LGPL?
What the point is I do not know, but I doubt that your argument would satisfy FSF. The problem is not the "using the headers at compile time", but the "linking against it at run time" step. AFAIK. Gabor > ian > > > -- Gabor Csardi <gabor.csa...@unil.ch> UNIL DGM ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel