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My humble 2 nonlegal cents: There are multiple packages that make the link between R and proprietary software. One example is R2WinBUGS which connects to WinBUGS, but there are a lot more of these. All of these use essentially the same idea: - create the package under a standard GPL license - use the (command line)...

...user to respect the license of the underlying library. -----Original Message----- From: R-devel [mailto:r-devel-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of Joris Meys Sent: Friday, March 24, 2017 8:14 AM To: Marc Schwartz Cc: R-Devel Subject: Re: [Rd] non-infectious license for R package? My humble 2 nonlegal cents: There are multiple packages that make the link between R and proprietary software. One example is R2WinBUGS which connects to WinBUGS, but there are a lot more of these. All of these use essentially the same idea: - create the package under a standard GPL license - use the (command line)...

...ibrary. > > -----Original Message----- > From: R-devel [mailto:r-devel-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of Joris > Meys > Sent: Friday, March 24, 2017 8:14 AM > To: Marc Schwartz > Cc: R-Devel > Subject: Re: [Rd] non-infectious license for R package? > > My humble 2 nonlegal cents: > > There are multiple packages that make the link between R and proprietary > software. One example is R2WinBUGS which connects to WinBUGS, but there are > a lot more of these. > > All of these use essentially the same idea: > - create the package under a standard GPL...

Dear All, I've been following this mailing list for over three years now, but its just now that I have realized that R is licensed under GPL! :-) I'm not a lawyer and I don't want lawyer advice, but I'd like to get your feedback on a license question. My goal is to develop commercial software for image analysis of biomedical samples that may be used i.e. in academic institutions.