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

2010-12-07 Thread Michael Sumner
Well, I'm very sorry for the outburst, it was completely inappropriate. I don't actually mind the inconvenience - it's rather instructive as to how badly things can go. I was lasshing out as it's really just ironic that you want to stamp out references to yourself in a package (how many on this li

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

2010-12-04 Thread Dominick Samperi
On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 8:11 AM, Michael Sumner wrote: > Christ, can we remove all references from the mailing lists while we're at > it? > Look, I want to release software to CRAN, and I would like to do it without having to explain those remarks in Rcpp. I understand your frustration, but the a

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

2010-12-04 Thread Michael Sumner
Christ, can we remove all references from the mailing lists while we're at it? On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 7:49 AM, Dominick Samperi wrote: > Dirk, > > Please let me know whether or not you will comply with my request to remove > references to my name in Rcpp (except copyright notices). > > Thanks,

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

2010-12-03 Thread Dominick Samperi
Dirk, Please let me know whether or not you will comply with my request to remove references to my name in Rcpp (except copyright notices). Thanks, Dominick On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 6:28 PM, Dominick Samperi wrote: > > > On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 5:58 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > >> >> On 2 Decem

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

2010-12-02 Thread Dominick Samperi
On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 6:43 PM, Joris Meys wrote: > On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 12:38 AM, Dominick Samperi > wrote: > > > We? Romain did not arrive on the scene until after November of 2009. > > > > To live outside the law you must be honest --- Bob Dylan. > > > >[[alternative HTML version de

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

2010-12-02 Thread Joris Meys
On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 12:38 AM, Dominick Samperi wrote: > We? Romain did not arrive on the scene until after November of 2009. > > To live outside the law you must be honest --- Bob Dylan. > >        [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > Peter Dalgaard and Martin Maechler were pretty clear if y

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

2010-12-02 Thread Dominick Samperi
On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 5:58 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > > On 2 December 2010 at 17:23, Dominick Samperi wrote: > | OK, since you are so accomodating, then please remove all reference to > | my name from Rcpp as I do not want to be subject to arbitrary revisions > of > | my status. I may not ha

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

2010-12-02 Thread Dominick Samperi
On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 5:58 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > > On 2 December 2010 at 17:23, Dominick Samperi wrote: > | OK, since you are so accomodating, then please remove all reference to > | my name from Rcpp as I do not want to be subject to arbitrary revisions > of > | my status. I may not ha

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

2010-12-02 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 2 December 2010 at 17:23, Dominick Samperi wrote: | OK, since you are so accomodating, then please remove all reference to | my name from Rcpp as I do not want to be subject to arbitrary revisions of | my status. I may not have the right to say how my prior work will be used, | but I think I ha

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

2010-12-02 Thread Dominick Samperi
While we are on the subject of terminology, it is important to remember that Rcpp is a C++ library, and this is often confused with Rcpp the package. I changed the package name to limit confusion on this point, but the package name was changed back to Rcpp for the "fork" (or "branch", not sure what

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

2010-12-02 Thread Dominick Samperi
On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 4:35 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > > There are repeated claims concerning a "Rcpp fork". Let's address both > terms > in turn. > > i) Rcpp was used in November 2008 as the name for a re-launch of a package >which had seen releases on CRAN in 2005/2006 during which it

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

2010-12-02 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
There are repeated claims concerning a "Rcpp fork". Let's address both terms in turn. i) Rcpp was used in November 2008 as the name for a re-launch of a package which had seen releases on CRAN in 2005/2006 during which it was also renamed to RcppTemplate. Hence no package of name Rcpp h