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qinghua xu <xy0702cy at="" yahoo.com.cn=""> writes:
> Dear Sean,
> ?
> Thanks a lot for your prompt reply!
> ?
> I think the main concern?is not the citation issue.?That should be
> OK. I have rapidly checked the "GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE" under
> which?R packages are released. If I understand correctly, it is more
Different R packages are released under different licenses (e1071 is
GPL-2; many Bioconductor packages are released under Artistic).
Martin
> about COPYING, DISTRIBUTION?and MODIFICATION program itself, rather
> than the outputs from?using program.
> ?
> Take?the famous package (e0171) as an example. Without doubt,?it is
> under the licence GPL-2, however, I?also find massive patents?of SVM
> application in the biomedical field.? Maybe, it is rather a question
> for intellectual property protection specialists.
> ?
> Thanks again!
> ?
> Qinghua
>
>
>
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> ? ?? Re: [BioC] Patent issues of classification algorithms
>
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I would like to know is there any patent related concern when try
to publish a microarray study using different classification
algorithms, like KNNs, Random Forest, Support Vector Machine and so
on?
>>
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>
> A couple of places to look:
>
> In the DESCRIPTION of each package available for R, there is a
license
> line that may be useful for determining the license under which the
> software is released.? More importantly, though, is probably the
> citation() entry, which gives the citations for the package that
> should be cited if the package is used in a publication.
>
> As for patents, I'm not sure how important that is from a user
> perspective; perhaps others want to comment here.
>
> Sean
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