Re: does r-cran-afex violate the GPL?
On Fri, Oct 02, 2015 at 09:34:10PM +0200, Jonathon Love wrote:
> i'm talking with upstream about the r-cran-afex package, and it seems to
> me that it violates the GPL, but upstream isn't convinced.
>
> afex is GPL >= 3, and it depends on (and calls functions from) R
> packages which are GPL2-only.
>
> is this "textbook GPL violation"?
I don't think so. A system call to the kernel, for example, is
considered to be "using" the kernel, and will not make your program to
be GPL-2. Is this really different from that?
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