From lokkju at gmail.com  Fri Aug 19 23:26:59 2011
From: lokkju at gmail.com (Lokkju Brennr)
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2011 14:26:59 -0700
Subject: [Rd] Licensing Issue with JRI
Message-ID: <CAOCX9Dm4fD6P200cgXhX0icHZw1Y2D+n2zgNQ797Di2dng=H_A@mail.gmail.com>

Hoping someone can clear up a licencing question...

My understanding is that R is licensed under the GPL, with some
headers licensed under the LGPL (per COPYRIGHTS, so that R plugins
don't have to be GPL - arguably incorrect, but besides the point).
JRI states that it is licensed under the LGPL - but it links against R
shared libraries (or so is my understanding - please correct me if I'm
wrong).
This seems incompatible, as per
(http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLModuleLicense) if there
is any GPL code in a compiled assembly, the resulting binary must be
GPL, and per (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#IfLibraryIsGPL)
if a library is GPL, then anything that links against it must be GPL.

Anyone have any input here?

Thanks

Loki



[Rd] Licensing Issue with JRI
Lokkju Brennr