* Prof Brian Ripley <rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk> [2010-08-12 18:25]: > Hmm, one of those 'minimal changes' was to omit the copyright and > licence statements. I very much doubt that you have the right to post > copied code without those, and we certainly do not have the right to > use such code in the R sources.
I am sorry for this omission. > Bash is currently distributed under a licence that FSF deems > incompatible with that of R, and we would only accept code which can > be (re-)licensed under GPL (>=2). So it is critical where exactly > you copied this from. > > We can only consider code contributions where the provenance and > licensing of the code is clearcut. The code was taken from file bashline.c distributed in the bash-3.0 sources (available from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/bash/bash-3.0.tar.gz). The header of this file is: /* bashline.c -- Bash's interface to the readline library. */ /* Copyright (C) 1987-2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This file is part of GNU Bash, the Bourne Again SHell. Bash is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later version. Bash is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with Bash; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the Free Software Foundation, 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111 USA. */ Would that be okay? > That includes your own contributions, and since you posted from an > address which is likely to be your employer, who owns the copyright of > your work needs to be clear too. Well, in the proposed patch there was no line of code that could genuinely be called "mine". I think that my contribution would fall below the "legally significant" threshold, as defined by the GNU project: http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/maintain.html#Legally-Significant I would classify my changes as mere "ideas", as discussed in the URL above (besides the fact that the code does actually work). In this case, I do not think we should bother making me hold copyright on the sys-std.c file. > If you provide a patch with these extremely important issues > resolved, we will consider its merits. But not otherwise. Please, tell me whether what I wrote above is okay and I will prepare a new patch containing the copyright clarification. Best regards, Rafael Laboissiere ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
