From ggrothendieck at gmail.com  Wed Nov 19 13:15:03 2008
From: ggrothendieck at gmail.com (Gabor Grothendieck)
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 07:15:03 -0500
Subject: [Rd] R license: GPL v2 or v3?
In-Reply-To: <20081118222427.GA18649@encolpuis>
References: <20081118222427.GA18649@encolpuis>
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There is an analysis of the R license here:

http://www.ohloh.net/projects/rproject/analyses/latest


On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 5:24 PM, Gabriel Gellner <ggellner at uoguelph.ca> wrote:
> For a project I am porting some of R's source code, and I want to
> get the license for my project correct, but the top level COPYING file
> for R's source states GPL v2, but when using:
>
>    > license()
>
> (which also states GPL version 2) points me towards:
>
>    > RShowDoc('COPYING')
>
> which states GPL v3. Which is correct?
>
> Thanks for clarification (and the amazing amount of code!).
>
> Gabriel
>
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[Rd] R license: GPL v2 or v3?
Gabor Grothendieck