Re: [R] Why was the ‘doSMP’ package removed from CRAN?

2012-01-26 Thread Tal Galili 
Thank you for the explanation Uwe.

With regards,
Tal


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On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 10:42 AM, Uwe Ligges <
lig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.de> wrote:

>
>
> On 26.01.2012 09:39, Barry Rowlingson wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 8:02 AM, Uwe Ligges
>> >
>>  wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 25.01.2012 22:20, Tal Galili wrote:
>>>
>>
>>  Does any one know the reason for this?
 Is this a technical or a legal (e.g: license) issue?

>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> If legal issues were the reason, you had not found it in the archives
>>> anymore.
>>>
>>>
>>  Licensing can change - as a copyright holder I could decide the next
>> release of my package is going to be under a proprietary license that
>> doesn't allow redistribution. Any code already released under
>> something like the GPL can't be forcibly removed, and people can make
>> new forks from those, but if I'm the only person writing it and I
>> decide to change the license and the latest free version isn't
>> compatible with the current version of R then I'd expect to see the
>> old versions in the archives and no version for the latest version of
>> R.
>>
>>  Last checkin at R-forge was only six weeks ago, and 1.0-3 installs
>> fine on my latest R:
>>
>>  
>> https://r-forge.r-project.org/**scm/?group_id=950
>>
>> I suspect they just haven't pushed it to R-forge yet. Cockup before
>> conspiracy.
>>
>> Barry
>>
>
> Before people start with even more speculations: Reason is that the
> revoIPC package does no compile on modern versions of gcc and hence has
> been archived, doSMP depends on it and therefore went to the archives as
> well.
>
> Uwe Ligges
>

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Re: [R] Why was the ‘doSMP’ package removed from CRAN?

2012-01-26 Thread Uwe Ligges 



On 26.01.2012 09:39, Barry Rowlingson wrote:

On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 8:02 AM, Uwe Ligges
  wrote:



On 25.01.2012 22:20, Tal Galili wrote:



Does any one know the reason for this?
Is this a technical or a legal (e.g: license) issue?




If legal issues were the reason, you had not found it in the archives
anymore.



  Licensing can change - as a copyright holder I could decide the next
release of my package is going to be under a proprietary license that
doesn't allow redistribution. Any code already released under
something like the GPL can't be forcibly removed, and people can make
new forks from those, but if I'm the only person writing it and I
decide to change the license and the latest free version isn't
compatible with the current version of R then I'd expect to see the
old versions in the archives and no version for the latest version of
R.

  Last checkin at R-forge was only six weeks ago, and 1.0-3 installs
fine on my latest R:

  https://r-forge.r-project.org/scm/?group_id=950

I suspect they just haven't pushed it to R-forge yet. Cockup before conspiracy.

Barry


Before people start with even more speculations: Reason is that the 
revoIPC package does no compile on modern versions of gcc and hence has 
been archived, doSMP depends on it and therefore went to the archives as 
well.


Uwe Ligges

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Re: [R] Why was the ‘doSMP’ package removed from CRAN?

2012-01-26 Thread Barry Rowlingson 
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 8:02 AM, Uwe Ligges
 wrote:
>
>
> On 25.01.2012 22:20, Tal Galili wrote:

>> Does any one know the reason for this?
>> Is this a technical or a legal (e.g: license) issue?
>
>
>
> If legal issues were the reason, you had not found it in the archives
> anymore.
>

 Licensing can change - as a copyright holder I could decide the next
release of my package is going to be under a proprietary license that
doesn't allow redistribution. Any code already released under
something like the GPL can't be forcibly removed, and people can make
new forks from those, but if I'm the only person writing it and I
decide to change the license and the latest free version isn't
compatible with the current version of R then I'd expect to see the
old versions in the archives and no version for the latest version of
R.

 Last checkin at R-forge was only six weeks ago, and 1.0-3 installs
fine on my latest R:

 https://r-forge.r-project.org/scm/?group_id=950

I suspect they just haven't pushed it to R-forge yet. Cockup before conspiracy.

Barry

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Re: [R] Why was the ‘doSMP’ package removed from CRAN?

2012-01-26 Thread Uwe Ligges 



On 25.01.2012 22:20, Tal Galili wrote:

Hello dear list,

I just noticed that:

Package ‘doSMP’ was removed from the CRAN repository.
http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/doSMP/index.html

Does any one know the reason for this?
Is this a technical or a legal (e.g: license) issue?



If legal issues were the reason, you had not found it in the archives 
anymore.


Uwe




Thanks,
Tal



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[R] Why was the ‘doSMP’ package removed from CRAN?

2012-01-25 Thread Tal Galili 
Hello dear list,

I just noticed that:

Package ‘doSMP’ was removed from the CRAN repository.
http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/doSMP/index.html

Does any one know the reason for this?
Is this a technical or a legal (e.g: license) issue?


Thanks,
Tal



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