This is fantastically off-topic, and has nothing to do with *R*. Out of "courtesy" to this list, the subscribers, and future readers, please take this off-list where it belongs.
Jeff On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 11:27 PM, Dominick Samperi <djsamp...@earthlink.net> wrote: > Stavros Macrakis wrote: >> >> That said, as a matter of courtesy and clarity, I'd think that a fork >> should use a different name. > > Yes, the point is that this is not a legal or technical matter, it is a > matter of professional courtesy. > > I take this as one vote for the name change. > > On US copyright law, this should not be confused with "copyright" notices > that appear in GPL > source code. Remember that these are really "copyleft" notices, and copyleft > is designed to > protect the rights of copiers, not original contributors. My concern about > the copyright notice > should be viewed in the same spirit as the name change (professional > courtesy). > > Since GPL is largely silent on these issues I have asked the R community to > vote... > > Thanks, > Dominick > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > -- Jeffrey Ryan jeffrey.r...@insightalgo.com ia: insight algorithmics www.insightalgo.com ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
