From ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk  Tue Aug 24 20:58:41 2004
From: ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk (Prof Brian D Ripley)
Date: Tue Aug 24 21:00:43 2004
Subject: [Rd] License of Mathlib
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On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, cstrato wrote:

> Dear R-Developers
>
> I have a question regarding the license of Mathlib:
> Is the license GPL or LGPL?
>
> I am confused, since the file "nmath.h" mentions GPL in the header,
> while the file "Rmath.h0.in" mentions LGPL in the header.

More importantly, the C code of the functions is under GPL.
It is only the public header files (and nmath.h is private) that have LGPL
in them.  See the file COPYRIGHTS (which you seem not to be aware of).

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[Rd] License of Mathlib
Prof Brian D Ripley