On May 3, 2013, at 18:42 , Duncan Murdoch wrote: >> >> " one practical problem with requiring GPL >=3 is that it is not GPL-2 >> compatible" > > It may mean that one of your users won't be able to use the package, for > example if something else that they need requires GPL-2 licensing.
Actually, with the GPL licenses, usage is not a problem, but distribution can be. These legalities are a bit inane, and I try to forget about them as far as possible, but I think trouble kicks in if someone wants to distribute a work that derives from both GPL-2 and GPL-3 codes. What "derived" means is yet another inane discussion... -- Peter Dalgaard, Professor, Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark Phone: (+45)38153501 Email: pd....@cbs.dk Priv: pda...@gmail.com ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
