[Rd] forking a CRAN project

2014-03-04 Thread Michael Friendly
There is a CRAN package licensed just as GPL, say, XX, I want to use in a book. But I've needed to modify the package to make it do what I need for expository purposes. The package author(s) are amenable to my modifications, but probably unlikely to incorporate them into the CRAN version any

Re: [Rd] Constructor/extractor.

2014-03-04 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 1:47 AM, Rolf Turner r.tur...@auckland.ac.nz wrote: Questions: == (2) Even if there are no such functions, is there anything intrinsically *wrong* with having a function possessing this somewhat schizophrenic nature? Is it likely to cause confusion, induce

Re: [Rd] forking a CRAN project

2014-03-04 Thread peter dalgaard
As usual: For legal advice, get a lawyer... However, yes, the GPL quite expressedly allows licencees to distribute modified versions, provided that the modified source code is made available and is redistributable under the GPL. It's common courtesy and possibly also required by law (the GPL

Re: [Rd] [PATCH] suggestions for R-lang manual

2014-03-04 Thread Scott Kostyshak
On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 7:48 AM, Martin Maechler maech...@stat.math.ethz.ch wrote: Scott Kostyshak skost...@princeton.edu on Thu, 27 Feb 2014 16:43:02 -0500 writes: On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 1:17 AM, Scott Kostyshak skost...@princeton.edu wrote: Attached is a patch with