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I know the standard answer to this kind of question is "get legal advice from a lawyer", but I would like to hear the (hopefully informed) opinion of other people. I would say that, according to the FSF's interpretation of the GPL, any R code using GPL packages can be distributed legally only using GPL-compatible licenses. http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#IfInterpreterIsGPL

Afternoon all. I was discussing the current licensing of Xapian and how it influences the way we work with someone at another OSS project recently, and although the upshot is likely to be that they'll amend their license (it's a corporate foundation, and GPL compatibility is something they desire for precisely this reason), it did prompt me to think about how we're tracking where we

It is my understanding that R is licensed under the GPL with the exception of a few header files for the purposes of linking binary code with R under non-GPL licenses. However, the R-base package itself is licensed under the GPL, as are many (but not all) packages in CRAN. Furthermore, basically any R script will use functionality from R-base. As I understand it, the situation isn't

On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 10:03:05AM -0800, Yandell, Henri wrote: > We?re looking into using Hivex and came across something odd. While > the license of hivex.c is LGPL 2.1, it appears to require the GPL > 3.0 licensed gnulib package for a few minor functions ( full_read, > full_write and c_toupper ). There are also a few GPL 3.0 build > files. It has always been our intention to

Hi guys I've been browsing the code and at many places I found the following odd sequence: char * string=malloc(somesize); ? bzero(string,strlen(string)); free(string); I really don't see why you would zero a string and free the memory immediately afterwards? Any idea why this is done? Thanks! Met vriendelijke groet Best regards Bien ? vous Miguel SANDERS ArcelorMittal Gent UNIX

Hi Does OpenSSH have a feature in which a client gets kicked out after X minutes of inactivity (no keystrokes)? I have seen this on other SSH implementations but I don't see it in OpenSSH. Thnx! Met vriendelijke groet Best regards Bien ? vous Miguel SANDERS ArcelorMittal Gent UNIX Systems & Storage IT Supply Western Europe | John Kennedylaan 51 B-9042 Gent T +32 9 347 3538 | F +32 9

Hi guys Apparently, there is small memory leak in the do_ssh2_kex() routine in sshd.c. Line 2195 in sshd.c states: myproposal[PROPOSAL_SERVER_HOST_KEY_ALGS] = list_hostkey_types(); Where list_hostkey_types() returns a pointer allocated by the xstrdup call (line 735). This pointer should be freed in the calling routine do_ssh2_key(). Should I make a patch for this? Also, since my previous patch

Hi folks Is there any particular reason why these two great features (thanks Simon!) are not part of the OpenSSH mainstream? Met vriendelijke groet Best regards Bien ? vous Miguel SANDERS ArcelorMittal Gent UNIX Systems & Storage IT Supply Western Europe | John Kennedylaan 51 B-9042 Gent T +32 9 347 3538 | F +32 9 347 4901 | M +32478 805 023 E miguel.sanders at arcelormittal.com

Hi Apparently, the server option "PrintLastLog" does not work on AIX. The last login time is always displayed, disregarding the option. When browsing the code, I found out there are several functions in loginrec.c which solely handle the processing of the last login info (login_get_lastlog, getlast_entry). Since AIX does not provide such a function natively, the configure script sets

Hi I'm currently observing a rather bizarre situation when using password based Kerberos authentication in OpenSSH on AIX. Even though AIX can authenticate a user via Kerberos (using the KRB5A load module), OpenSSH cannot Kerberos authenticate this user. This is caused by the fact that the user has two attributes which OpenSSH doesn't take into account when forming the principal name of

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

Hi guys While debugging a GSSAPI memory allocation problem not related to OpenSSH, I found a memory leak in OpenSSH when storing forwarded GSSAPI credentials resulting in a growing process segment for each connection that uses GSSAPI credentials forwarding. What happens is the following: In the privileged parent, we are calling ssh_gssapi_storecreds() which itself calls

Howdy all... Reading with interest the thread(s) about REvolution, package licensing and the requirements of the GPL. First of all, let me introduce myself?. ?I joined REvolution Computing in February, after working for nearly 4 years for Intel as an open source strategist and before that for 6 years at Sun, where I established the first corporate open source programs office. ?I'm a Member of

Hi -- I'm wondering if some of you old hands might offer me some guidance. I've been working for some time with a virtual machine platform that is based loosely on the instruction set of a Forth hardware processor that Charles Moore designed sometime back. He used what he called a "MISC" or "Minimal Instruction Set Computer" and the original instruction set I was

Hello, I apologize that I am cross posting here after getting no answer from my initial question on stack overflow <http://stackoverflow.com/questions/33492601/r-setoldclass-only-if-needed>. I should certainly have posted it first here.. I am using 3 packages: - xts - quantmod - 'myPackage' quantmod is creating a union class by doing: setOldClass("xts");

If you want a definitive answer, you'll have to ask a lawyer (sadly). My layman's understanding is that the license means that anyone who distributes any part of libogg or libvorbis must include the copyright notices and license text when they do so. That's all. It doesn't matter who is doing the distributing, you or your users or anyone else, they all have to follow that one

On Sep 22, 2008, at 13:36, 罗勇刚 wrote: > I found that LLVM were using Binutils to assemble the Assembly Code > to the Machine Code, so I have a question, why LLVM don't direct > generate the machine code? There was a protracted and rather uninteresting discussion of this matter on this list some months ago. I'll summarize the outcome of that thread briefly: LLVM does

Greetings I have found next paragraph in Licence file(source root) "Digium, Inc. (formerly Linux Support Services) holds copyright and/or sufficient licenses to all components of the Asterisk package, and therefore can grant, at its sole discretion, the ability for companies, individuals, or organizations to create proprietary or Open Source (even if not GPL) modules which may be dynamically

I think this is covered well by the CRAN repository policy: http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/policies.html The two key license requirements are that: 1) CRAN must have a perpetual license to distribute the package 2) The package license should be listed here: https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/share/licenses/license.db Packages with licenses not included in that list are generally not

I intend to submit a newly developed package to CRAN (to be licensed under the GPL), which prompted me to re-read the GPL FAQ. The following section caught my attention: > If a programming language interpreter is released under the GPL, does that mean programs written to be interpreted by it must be under GPL-compatible licenses? > > When the interpreter just interprets a language,