Re: [Rd] GPL and R Community Policies (Rcpp)

2010-12-02 Thread Dominick Samperi
On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 2:45 AM, Sean O'Riordain sean...@acm.org wrote: Good morning Dominick, I don't use the Rcpp package and have only the vaguest notions of its history. One of your requests is that your name might be removed from the project as you no longer wish to be associated with

Re: [Rd] GPL and R Community Policies (Rcpp)

2010-12-02 Thread Dominick Samperi
On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 9:20 AM, Martyn Plummer plumm...@iarc.fr wrote: Dear Dominick, The R community does not have a conflict resolution mechanism. We are quite used to disputes that end with one party, usually a recognized authority, saying No, you are objectively, verifiably wrong. We

Re: [Rd] GPL and R Community Policies (Rcpp)

2010-12-02 Thread Dominick Samperi
On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 10:21 AM, Spencer Graves spencer.gra...@structuremonitoring.com wrote: On 12/2/2010 6:20 AM, Martyn Plummer wrote: Dear Dominick, The R community does not have a conflict resolution mechanism. We are quite used to disputes that end with one party, usually a

Re: [Rd] GPL and R Community Policies (Rcpp)

2010-12-02 Thread Ravi Varadhan
] On Behalf Of Spencer Graves Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2010 10:22 AM To: Martyn Plummer Cc: r-devel@r-project.org; rcpp-devel Subject: Re: [Rd] GPL and R Community Policies (Rcpp) On 12/2/2010 6:20 AM, Martyn Plummer wrote: Dear Dominick, The R community does not have a conflict resolution mechanism

Re: [Rd] GPL and R Community Policies (Rcpp)

2010-12-02 Thread Joris Meys
On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 4:31 PM, Dominick Samperi djsamp...@gmail.com wrote: Worst yet is having to compete with your own work. About which competition are we talking then? I'm sorry, but the vast majority of the 7 lines of code of the rcpp are not your work. And honestly, I don't know of

Re: [Rd] GPL and R Community Policies (Rcpp)

2010-12-02 Thread Dominick Samperi
On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 10:47 AM, Joris Meys jorism...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 4:31 PM, Dominick Samperi djsamp...@gmail.com wrote: Worst yet is having to compete with your own work. About which competition are we talking then? I'm sorry, but the vast majority of the

Re: [Rd] GPL and R Community Policies (Rcpp)

2010-12-02 Thread peter dalgaard
On Dec 2, 2010, at 15:20 , Martyn Plummer wrote: Everybody knows that you have an acrimonious relationship with the current developers of Rcpp (and if they don't then a cursory look at the rcpp-devel archives will confirm this). The issue of the acknowledgment that you are complaining about

Re: [Rd] GPL and R Community Policies (Rcpp)

2010-12-02 Thread Dominick Samperi
On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 12:29 PM, Gabor Grothendieck ggrothendi...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 11:24 AM, Claudia Beleites cbelei...@units.it wrote: On 12/02/2010 10:32 AM, Liviu Andronic wrote: Dear all On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 7:21 PM, Dominick Samperidjsamp...@gmail.com

[Rd] GPL and R Community Policies (Rcpp)

2010-12-01 Thread Dominick Samperi
This post asks members of the R community, users and developers, to comment on issues related to the GNU Public License and R community policies more generally. The GPL says very little about protecting the the rights of original contributors by not disseminating misleading information about

Re: [Rd] GPL and R Community Policies (Rcpp)

2010-12-01 Thread Sean O'Riordain
Good morning Dominick, I don't use the Rcpp package and have only the vaguest notions of its history. One of your requests is that your name might be removed from the project as you no longer wish to be associated with it. However, I suspect that it is simply not legal to remove your copyright