On: In-database R coming to SQL Server 2016

[fs111]

How does that work when R is GPL licensed? Doesn't that make SQL server a derived work?

[toddkazakov → fs111]

Revolution have their own implementation of R called OpenR.

[hadley → toddkazakov]

No, that's not their own implementation. It's GNU r bundled with some extras

[olh → fs111]

Not the same R implementation.

[fs111 → olh]

I see. Did they re-implement it from scratch?

[benologist → fs111]

MS owns Revolution Analytics, can't they just ignore the license [MS now] provided for public use?

[hadley → benologist]

Revolution analytics isn't a copyright holder of R, so no.