Rcpp: Clarifying the meaning of GPL?
This is fantastically off-topic, and has nothing to do with *R*. Out of "courtesy" to this list, the subscribers, and future readers, please take this off-list where it belongs. Jeff On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 11:27 PM, Dominick Samperi
<djsamperi at earthlink.net> wrote:
Stavros Macrakis wrote:
That said, as a matter of courtesy and clarity, I'd think that a fork should use a different name.
Yes, the point is that this is not a legal or technical matter, it is a matter of professional courtesy. I take this as one vote for the name change. On US copyright law, this should not be confused with "copyright" notices that appear in GPL source code. Remember that these are really "copyleft" notices, and copyleft is designed to protect the rights of copiers, not original contributors. My concern about the copyright notice should be viewed in the same spirit as the name change (professional courtesy). Since GPL is largely silent on these issues I have asked the R community to vote... Thanks, Dominick
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