On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 2:17 AM, Prof Brian Ripley <rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote: > On 27/11/2011 23:07, Sachinthaka Abeywardana wrote: >> >> Hi All, >> >> A few years back when I was a CSIRO (an Australian research centre) intern >> I developed a BLAS package for R that uses the GPU. I believe that there >> is >> something similar right now, except it uses a few CuBLAS (Nvidia BLAS) >> routines, but doesnt replace them. > > We haven't much idea what 'something similar' refers to. > >> My question is, is it technically illegal to hold back on source code? > > It depends entirely on the licenses involved. Nothing prevents Adobe > distributing Acrobat without source code, for example. > > This is the R development list: questions not specific to R are best asked > elsewhere (and, to take a recent example, that includes questions about > licenses of packages on R-forge or CRAN). 'Elsewhere' may mean an IP > lawyer.
One side-effect of R's GPL-based license is that there are many Copyright holders if you include members of the R core, R Foundation, R package contributors, etc., and any discussion (with an IP lawyer, say) about possible violation of license terms would require input from each of these groups. Perhaps a new mailing list R-license-policy would be helpful... Dominick >> Thanks, >> Sachin >> >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-devel@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > > > -- > Brian D. Ripley, rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk > Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ > University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) > 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) > Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel