[R] Wolfram Engine for Developers

[peter dalgaard]

Even from a cursory glance, it is clear that this product is not Free Software, not even Free as in Beer. It cannot be used by end users of open source projects unless you apply for a special license from Wolfram, which I strongly suspect would render the whole project in violation of the GPL license that R has.

It is possible that you could write an interface from R to WED. The licensing questions around "derived works" are a bit murky, but as far as I know it is OK for a GPL'ed software to _use_ a commercial software, assuming that the user has the appropriate license. However, I fail to see that such an interface would be a major selling point for R.

-pd 

> On 5 Jul 2019, at 19:30 , Jordi Molins <anarco.socialdemocrata using gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Wolfram Engine for Developers is now free (under some circumstances). Is it
> possible to call Wolfram from R, especially from RStudio?
> 
> Being able to do this would significantly increase the potential of R, I
> believe.
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