GPL and R Community Policies (Rcpp)
On 12/02/2010 10:32 AM, Liviu Andronic wrote:
Dear all On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 7:21 PM, Dominick Samperi<djsamperi at gmail.com> wrote:
The author line of the latest release of the R package Rcpp (0.8.9) was revised as follows: From: "based on code written during 2005 and 2006 by Dominick Samperi" To: "a small portion of the code is based on code written during 2005 and 2006 by Dominick Samperi" From the info given in the thread, personally I'm sympathetic to
Dominick's complaint: the latter message is no proper way to acknowledge the original author of the package. As I see it, the project either: - explicitly mentions the original author and the active (current) contributors (and perhaps previous ones), or - lines up all previous contributors in a line and singles out the active contributors
- or in this case say that it was forked (when) from (Author)'s (package) (version)
But saying that the original author's contributions represented some coding of random importance (implied in the message above), only a subset of which made it to the current release, sounds disparaging to my ears, too. My humble opinion Liviu
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