Re: Bug#731599: ITP: r-cran-locfit -- GNU R local regression, likelihood and density estimation
Hi,
On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 08:04:28PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
> Le Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 11:56:08AM +0100, Andreas Tille a écrit :
> >
> > The actual source code is exclusively and explicitly mentioning a README
> > file. I'd tempeted to include just this README file which is not in
> > conflict with GPL IMHO.
> >
> > I now remember that we previously tried to contact Catherine and Lucent
> > but failed.
> >
> > What do you think?
>
> The README file forbids benchmarking, which is unfortunatly incompatible with
> the GPL...
Ahhh, you are right. I missed that bit. I wished Santa Claus would
bring some law that any author who puts any restriction on his code
would be obliged for life time to be reachable via his given e-mail and
needs to answer not later than one week to any request. Putting stupid
restrictions and than vanishing is way more mind boggling than closed
source because this would force people sitting down and write the code
from scratch.
> The CRAN maintainer Andy Liaw <andy_liaw at merck.com> is our last
> hope.
Yes ...
> Also, if r-cran-locfit goes in non-free, it is not that bad, because if I
> understand well you need it for regression tests, and these can be run outside
> of the build session, using autopkgtest.
That's true in fact.
Kind regards
Andreas.
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