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 > > > > ________________________________ > ???? Sean Davis <seandavi at="" gmail.com=""> > > ? ?? bioconductor at stat.math.ethz.ch; qinghua.xu at as.biomerieux.com > ????? 2009/12/14 (??) 8:38:58 ?? > ? ?? 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? >> > [[elided Yahoo spam]] > > 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 > > ________________________________ > ????????????????? > > > ___________________________________________________________ > ????????????????? > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > _______________________________________________ > Bioconductor mailing list > Bioconductor at stat.math.ethz.ch > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioconductor > Search the archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.science.biology.informatics.conductor -- Martin Morgan Computational Biology / Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center 1100 Fairview Ave. N. PO Box 19024 Seattle, WA 98109 Location: Arnold Building M1 B861 Phone: (206) 667-2793