Re: [R-sig-Geo] Status of gpclib license

2010-01-17 Thread Nicholas Lewin-Koh
Hi Roger, Thanks, yes I was aware of the license filtering, and the changes. This has been very helpful for us at work where we are very commercial and for profit, and need to keep careful track of what is on our computers. Maybe it was PBSmapping I was remembering. Cheers Nicholas On Sun, 17 J

Re: [R-sig-Geo] Status of gpclib license

2010-01-17 Thread Roger Bivand
On Sun, 17 Jan 2010, Roger Bivand wrote: On Sun, 17 Jan 2010, Nicholas Lewin-Koh wrote: Hi, Thanks, I must be remembering something else then. I hope I am not APOE4 +/+. Hi Nicholas, ... When CRAN had few packages, and packages had few dependencies, users could control the licenses of p

Re: [R-sig-Geo] Status of gpclib license

2010-01-17 Thread Roger Bivand
On Sun, 17 Jan 2010, Nicholas Lewin-Koh wrote: Hi, Thanks, I must be remembering something else then. I hope I am not APOE4 +/+. Hi Nicholas, I wouldn't worry more than we all have to! About 5 years ago an attempt was made to find out what the license of the underlying C code was, but did n

Re: [R-sig-Geo] Status of gpclib license

2010-01-17 Thread Nicholas Lewin-Koh
Hi, Thanks, I must be remembering something else then. I hope I am not APOE4 +/+. Nicholas On Sun, 17 Jan 2010 17:44 +0100, "Edzer Pebesma" wrote: > Nicholas, > > this is unlikely; if true, the author would have done well to update his > software page http://www.cs.manchester.ac.uk/~toby/alan/

Re: [R-sig-Geo] Status of gpclib license

2010-01-17 Thread Edzer Pebesma
Nicholas, this is unlikely; if true, the author would have done well to update his software page http://www.cs.manchester.ac.uk/~toby/alan/software/ and the corresponding wikipedia entry, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPC_General_Polygon_Clipper_Library Even (some) universities can these days

[R-sig-Geo] Status of gpclib license (was: Alternate methods: Polygon Algebra / Polygon Overlay with R Spatial objects..)

2010-01-17 Thread Nicholas Lewin-Koh
Hi Roger, I thought I remembered that at some point you had contacted the author of gpclib and gotten permission to release the package under gpl. Has that changed or is senility completely catching up with me. Nicholas > Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 20:00:30 +0100 (CET) > From: Roger Bivand > To: ri