Re: [Rd] [Rcpp-devel] GPL and R Community Policies (Rcpp)

2010-12-01 Thread Dominick Samperi
On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 2:53 PM, Douglas Bates wrote: > Against my better judgement I will try to correct a misconception. I > fear that my message will only fan the flames but I also think that > if we are to be subjected to long, drawn out, personal attacks on this > subject then the readers o

Re: [Rd] [Rcpp-devel] GPL and R Community Policies (Rcpp)

2010-12-01 Thread Hadley Wickham
> Perhaps a wider community of R users can weigh in on a > policy decision that was implicitly deemed acceptable on this > thread. Namely, that it is fine to arbitrarily and > for no reason deprecate the contributions of past > authors, and as more progress is made, even more > disparaging remarks

Re: [Rd] [Rcpp-devel] GPL and R Community Policies (Rcpp)

2010-12-01 Thread Joris Meys
On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 9:45 PM, Dominick Samperi wrote: > Perhaps a wider community of R users can weigh in on a > policy decision that was implicitly deemed acceptable on this > thread. Namely, that it is fine to arbitrarily and > for no reason deprecate the contributions of past > authors, and

Re: [Rd] [Rcpp-devel] GPL and R Community Policies (Rcpp)

2010-12-01 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 5:18 PM, Hadley Wickham wrote: >> Perhaps a wider community of R users can weigh in on a >> policy decision that was implicitly deemed acceptable on this >> thread. Namely, that it is fine to arbitrarily and >> for no reason deprecate the contributions of past >> authors, an

Re: [Rd] [Rcpp-devel] GPL and R Community Policies (Rcpp)

2010-12-01 Thread Dominick Samperi
On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 6:37 PM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: > On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 5:18 PM, Hadley Wickham wrote: > >> Perhaps a wider community of R users can weigh in on a > >> policy decision that was implicitly deemed acceptable on this > >> thread. Namely, that it is fine to arbitrarily and

Re: [Rd] [Rcpp-devel] GPL and R Community Policies (Rcpp)

2010-12-01 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 7:20 PM, Dominick Samperi wrote: > On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 6:37 PM, Gabor Grothendieck > wrote: >> >> On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 5:18 PM, Hadley Wickham wrote: >> >> Perhaps a wider community of R users can weigh in on a >> >> policy decision that was implicitly deemed acceptab

Re: [Rd] [Rcpp-devel] GPL and R Community Policies (Rcpp)

2010-12-01 Thread Spencer Graves
Hi, Dominick, et al.: I know nothing about about Rcpp, it's history and the contributions of Dominick and anyone else. I think everyone should be appropriately recognized for their contributions. However, I feel compelled to briefly outline personal experiences with collaborat

Re: [Rd] [Rcpp-devel] GPL and R Community Policies (Rcpp)

2010-12-01 Thread Spencer Graves
Hi, Dominick, et al.: I know nothing about about Rcpp, it's history and the contributions of Dominick and anyone else. I think everyone should be appropriately recognized for their contributions. However, I feel compelled to briefly outline personal experiences with collaborat

Re: [Rd] [Rcpp-devel] GPL and R Community Policies (Rcpp)

2010-12-01 Thread Dominick Samperi
On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 7:55 PM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: > On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 7:20 PM, Dominick Samperi > wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 6:37 PM, Gabor Grothendieck < > ggrothendi...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > >> > >> On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 5:18 PM, Hadley Wickham wrote: > >> >> Perhaps a w

Re: [Rd] [Rcpp-devel] GPL and R Community Policies (Rcpp)

2010-12-01 Thread Dominick Samperi
On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 8:19 PM, Spencer Graves < spencer.gra...@structuremonitoring.com> wrote: > Hi, Dominick, et al.: > > > I know nothing about about Rcpp, it's history and the contributions of > Dominick and anyone else. I think everyone should be appropriately > recognized for their con

Re: [Rd] [Rcpp-devel] GPL and R Community Policies (Rcpp)

2010-12-01 Thread Gavin Simpson
On Wed, 2010-12-01 at 20:24 -0500, Dominick Samperi wrote: > > Just to be clear I have never used the package and am not truly > > commenting on this particular case but only the general ideas in this > > thread. Also I was not suggesting that the comments in the code were > > purposefully mislea

Re: [Rd] [Rcpp-devel] GPL and R Community Policies (Rcpp)

2010-12-02 Thread Dominick Samperi
On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 2:51 AM, Gavin Simpson wrote: > On Wed, 2010-12-01 at 20:24 -0500, Dominick Samperi wrote: > > > > Just to be clear I have never used the package and am not truly > > > commenting on this particular case but only the general ideas in this > > > thread. Also I was not sugge

Re: [Rd] [Rcpp-devel] GPL and R Community Policies (Rcpp)

2010-12-02 Thread Martin Maechler
> Dominick Samperi > on Thu, 2 Dec 2010 03:27:58 -0500 writes: > On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 2:51 AM, Gavin Simpson wrote: >> On Wed, 2010-12-01 at 20:24 -0500, Dominick Samperi wrote: >> >> > > Just to be clear I have never used the package and am not truly >> > > co