On Tue, 2011-08-16 at 22:33 +0200, Uwe Schmitt wrote: > The question is, if I am allowed to distribute the R.dll and the > related libraries together with my software, or > if it is better to ask the user to install these himself.
By principle it is better *not* to bundle libraries into the software. This allows your user to benefits from bug-fixes and improvement which are done upstream. A list of reasons to discourage bundle library can be found there: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:No_Bundled_Libraries Regards, Pierre ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel