I see your name and work are clearly mentioned in the DESCRIPTION file: Rcpp: Rcpp R/C++ interface package
R/C++ interface classes and examples The Rcpp library maps data types betweeen R and C++, and includes support for R types real, integer, character, vector, matrix, Date, datetime (i.e. POSIXct) at microsecond resolution, data frame, and function. Transer to and from simple SEXP objects is particular easy. Calling R functions from C++ is also supported. C++ code can be 'inlined' and a helper function (from the 'inline' package) will create a C++ function and compile, link and load it which makes C++ integration easy. Several examples are included. Version: 0.7.0 Depends: R (>=2.0.0), methods Published: 2009-12-20 Author: Dirk Eddelbuettel with contributions by Simon Urbanek and David Reiss; based on code written during 2005 and 2006 by Dominick Samperi Maintainer: Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> License: GPL (>=2) URL: http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/code/rcpp.html Besides, I followed the URL and also saw Dirk's explanation for adopting your original work (in the "History" section). And when I opened the source code files, I can see declarations like this here and there: // -*- mode: C++; c-indent-level: 4; c-basic-offset: 4; tab-width: 8 -*- // // Rcpp.h: R/C++ interface class library // // Copyright (C) 2005 - 2006 Dominick Samperi // Copyright (C) 2008 - 2009 Dirk Eddelbuettel So the impression does not seem to be misleading at least to me... Maybe I missed anything or I did not understand your problem? Regards, Yihui -- Yihui Xie <xieyi...@gmail.com> Phone: 515-294-6609 Web: http://yihui.name Department of Statistics, Iowa State University 3211 Snedecor Hall, Ames, IA On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 12:14 PM, Dominick Samperi <djsamp...@earthlink.net> wrote: > I wrote the Rcpp library and the RcppTemplate package to make it > easier for developers to contribute packages to the R community. > In addition to providing detailed documentation on > package creation it provides a clean object mapping between > R anc C++ that helps developers to implement packages that > benefit from the performance of C++ and the flexibility of R. > > The package named 'Rcpp' was forked from my work and > is being developed independently, in spite of many protests > from me. A diff of Rcpp_0.6.6 and RcppTemplate_5.3 (written > several years ago), both available at CRAN, will show that > Rcpp added a few cut-and-paste changes. (The latest release > of Rcpp has been split up and reorganized so that it would > be difficult to find the differences now.) > > More importantly, while GPL gives developers the right to > make changes (without the permission of the original > contributor) it explicitly states that these changes should > not leave misleading impressions about the original > developer. > > Unfortunately, GPL does not spell out what it means to > be misleading. I think using the same name ('Rcpp') > as a library still being developed by the original author, > and listing yourself as a copyright holder on source code > alongside the original author without that person's > permission counts as misleading, but that is my > opinion. > > I am posting this message seeking the opinion of others > in the R community. Perhaps by sharing ideas we can > "self-organize" and find an interpretation of GPL that > benefits all R users, and all package contributors as well. > > A minimal resolution of this issue would be to simply > rename 'Rcpp' to something like 'RInside', or to something > else that is not misleading. > > Thanks, > Dominick > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
