About R and his GPL-3 license

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Being R distributed under license GPL-3 ,

Should not all packages and other Scripts be distributed under the same license? I ask, because I have seen that many packages are distributed under other licenses as MIT.

    
asked by user2641103 04.06.2017 в 17:39
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It is not necessary, GPLP allows what are known as "compatible" licenses, even under certain circumstances you can distribute proprietary software. For more information on compatible licenses, I suggest you see this link.

    
answered by 04.06.2017 / 18:01
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If you make a derivative of the source code of the implementation of R (for example: a new version of R that does different things, a product that modifies the R language), that product < em> has to be distributed with the GPL3 license. However, the R code may be distributed under any license independently of the license of R. These are two independent aspects.

For example: MATLAB is a proprietary product, but I can publish MATLAB code with any license.

    
answered by 05.06.2017 в 11:59
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