Jonathan, On 15 October 2013 at 15:27, Jonathan Olmsted wrote: | Dirk and Romain (in the order listed in the file mentioned below), | | Intellectual property rights confuse the heck out of me so I wanted to ask | explicitly before stepping on any toes. Rcpp is GPL-2. However, the Makevars in
Actually, it is "GPL (>= 2)" for every R / CRAN project I am involved with. And as already noted in this thread, the DESCRIPTION covers the project in question as a whole and unless otherwise specified what DESCRIPTION says hold which implies the "GPL (>= 2)" default. | the ./src/ directory don't necessarily carry the same license header as your | Cpp source. What are your intentions for derivative use of the Makevars files Those are a ten and three lines files. I don't think anybody really cares. I wrote down names of different people who helped at some point in the past. If you really cared, you could email everybody and ask. | you guys use in Rcpp? Specifically, I would like to use your strategy in an R | package to build a static lib for subsequent linking against by other R | packages. But why would you need the ones from Rcpp/src/Makevars* ? They are special because they need to create a library libRcpp.* to link against. "Normal" Rcpp-using packages have a much simpler src/Makevars* as eg created by Rcpp.package.skeleton. Hope this helps, Dirk -- Dirk Eddelbuettel | [email protected] | http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com _______________________________________________ Rcpp-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.r-forge.r-project.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rcpp-devel
