R devel - Nov 2008 - R license: GPL v2 or v3?

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

On Tue, 18 Nov 2008, Gabriel Gellner 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?
It does not, at least in R 2.8.0 (and I am pretty sure in no version 
of R).  What exactly are you looking at?

Many files in R are licensed under GPL 2 or later, but not all.  All 
non-trivial source files should have a header giving the licence terms for 
that file.
>
> Thanks for clarification (and the amazing amount of code!).
>
> Gabriel
>
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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
>
> ______________________________________________
> R-devel at r-project.org mailing list
> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
>