On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 2:49 AM, Pin Tian Ng<pin...@nau.edu> wrote: > I developed some code that called subroutines from the Port3 Library > (http://www-out.bell-labs.com/project/PORT/). I¹m thinking about making it > available as an R package. But I¹m not sure if their NON-EXCLUSIVE SOURCE > CODE LICENSE AGREEMENT ( > http://www-out.bell-labs.com/topic/swdist/licenses/nesource.txt ) permits > this.
It looks like a single-user, no-redistribution, no copying license. You could write a package that calls Port3 subroutines, but you couldn't distribute Port3 source or binaries with it - users would have to go get it themselves, and then probably they'd have to compile it. It seems though that some of Port3 is derived from Public Domain sources - see here: http://www-out.bell-labs.com/project/PORT/doc/README and you could include those files. > I tried contacting the contact person listed on the website. Not > surprisingly, the recipient doesn't exist at Lucent anymore. Any advice on > this will be appreciated. I'd recommend you rewrite your code to call subroutines from freely available and redistributable code libraries - in many cases you can use internal R subroutines, or there's the GSL: http://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/ Barry ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
