There *is* licencing information and you have quoted it. Since
understanding the implications is your business, I suggest you take advice
in your business.
I don't see what authority a mailing list could have to help you on this.
On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
> According to the CRAN contributed packages page, the license for
"KernSmooth" is
> *not* GPL. It is listed as "License: Unlimited distribution (from Dr
Wand)."
> Are there any restrictions on this of any kind? Is there some written
license
> document similar to the GPL license? The reason I'm asking is that the
legal
> beagles in the company I work for are extremely paranoid about this sort of
> thing, for their own special and wonderful reasons. There is no licensing
> information in the tarball, either. There are certain situations where I
might
> not be able to use "KernSmooth" as a result. "sm" *is*
GPL, fortunately, so
> there aren't any restrictions placed on me by the aforementioned
beagles. But
> IIRC "sm" doesn't do derivatives and "KernSmooth"
does.
> --
> znmeb at aracnet.com (M. Edward Borasky) http://www.aracnet.com/~znmeb
>
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