On 11-07-01 4:13 PM, Mohit Dayal wrote:
Dear R-programmers,
I would like to use one of the AS Algorithms that used to be published in
the journal Applied Statistics of the Royal Statistical Society (Series C).
FORTRAN code based on these are available on the Statlib website at
http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/modules.php?op=modload&name=PostWrap&file=index&page=apstat/
with the disclaimer,
*"The Royal Statistical Society holds the copyright to these routines, but
has given its permission for their distribution provided that no fee is
charged."*
*
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*Does this make these programs compatible with an open source license like
GPL-2 ? More specifically, can one safely include them in an R package?*
I think that is not GPL-2 compatible. If I'm right, they could still be
included in an R package if a more permissive license is used on the
whole package. I don't know if CRAN will allow you to put one license
on some parts of the code, and another on those files.
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*BTW I am looking at AS 133 : Finding the global maximum or minimum of a
function of 1 variable.
I don't know AS 133, but R does have other optimizers, and you may be
able to use them instead.
Duncan Murdoch
*
Regards,
Mohit Dayal
Researcher
Applied Statistics& Computing Lab
ISB
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