[kepler-dev] [Bug 5507] Windows Installer: The R choice is not unselectable

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http://bugzilla.ecoinformatics.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5507

--- Comment #4 from Christopher Brooks <cxh at eecs.berkeley.edu> 2011-10-06 12:32:28 PDT ---
The "R Kepler Module" checkbox appears to only install the R interface, not
all of R.  The size is reported as 1.86Mb.
The description is:
"Installs the R module which allows Kepler to use the R analytical engine."

It is an interesting question about whether shipping the R interface
means that Kepler is GPL'd.  If I remember correctly, if the 
"R Kepler Module" calls R by executing it as a subprocess, then Kepler
would *not* fall under GPL.  If the "R Kepler Module" calls R via
shared libraries (or the Java classpath?) then Kepler would fall
under GPL.

Someone should check for sure.

I do agree that Kepler should definitely not ship the R installer.

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