Hi Soeren, If you distribute the package under GPL-2, it gives the company as many freedoms as any other user of the package (freedom to study the code, to modify the code etc.) and I think that is a good thing (it is part of the definition of free [as in free speech] software).
I have obviously no clue on this specific case or on the intentions of the company, but the fact that a company is interested to use your package seems good news a priori and I have seen numerous occasions where users inside companies were able to identify bugs, suggest improvements, sponsor further development etc. HTH, Tobias On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 10:30 PM, Sören Vogel <soeren.vo...@posteo.ch> wrote: > Hello > > Please apologise if this is off-list. > > Today, a commercial company asked about numerical code and recent > numerical code changes that routines of my R-package are based upon. The > code is self-developed (by Carlo Albert) and based upon an algorithm to be > published in a scientific article within the next 4 weeks. I wonder (or > doubt?) if the license (GPL-2) and the open source spirit would be fully > regarded by the company. What is your recommendation to react on such a > request? Is there sort of a standard text to send? > > Thanks for your help > Sören > > _______________________________________________ > Rcpp-devel mailing list > Rcpp-devel@lists.r-forge.r-project.org > https://lists.r-forge.r-project.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rcpp-devel
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