I was referring specifically to gputools package: http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/gputools/index.html which has some of Nvidias CuBLAS implemented.
What I want to do is release the code and implement the package, and not get in trouble considering I was with CSIRO when I did it. I guess from all this what I gather is if I recode it in a different way I should be able to release it. From memory there were certainly GPL code elements within it. Thanks for all the help. Sachin On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 6:17 PM, 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. > > > Thanks, >> Sachin >> >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> >> ______________________________**________________ >> R-devel@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/**listinfo/r-devel<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/<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 > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
