/team lead/ IANAL - but note that we also have Microsoft R (and enhanced version of CRAN R) which provides local multi-threading, and cluster level paralleliza

/team lead/ IANAL - but note that we also have Microsoft R (and enhanced version of CRAN R) which provides local multi-threading, and cluster level parallelization + distributed memory support. It and the stock R interpreter have lots of GPL code. And given that both R & Python are now integrated with SQL Server, it seems that the lawyers have become comfortable regarding the separation lines. SQL Server for example calls an external script for R/Python. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server/sql-server-r-services https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server/sql-server-r-serv... https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/dataplatforminsider/2017/04/19/python-in-sql-server-2017-enhanced-in-database-machine-learning/ https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/dataplatforminsider/2017... Thanks!