From brett at fsf.org  Wed Apr 27 18:55:31 2011
From: brett at fsf.org (Brett Smith)
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 12:55:31 -0400
Subject: [Rd] GPLv2-only code in R?
Message-ID: <4DB84A83.2090804@fsf.org>

Hello,

I'm sending this to R-devel under the guideline that the ensuing 
discussion would probably be unintelligible to people who aren't 
programmers.  If that's not right, I apologize.

<http://www.r-project.org/Licenses/> says in part: "Some files are 
licensed under 'GPL (version 2 or later)', which includes GPL-3. See the 
comments in the files to see if this applies."  This implies that there 
are files in R that do *not* have the "or later" language, and can only 
be used under GPLv2.

I've done some initial searches for files in the R source code that 
don't have the "or later" language, but haven't turned anything up yet. 
  If anybody knows of any off-hand and could point me to them, I'd 
appreciate it.

Thank you,

-- 
Brett Smith
License Compliance Engineer, Free Software Foundation

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[Rd] GPLv2-only code in R?
Brett Smith