On 14.01.2010 23:25, Ben Bolker wrote:
I think this is probably known by someone, but I wanted to ask/comment:
The 'adapt' package has been removed from CRAN because of an 'unclear'
license. That makes sense, but it actually took a bit of digging for me
to discover that, and if I had been a student I might not have figured
it out. The package is simply missing from the CRAN compiled packages
page; I did find information in the check summaries; but I didn't get a
clear indication until I found
http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/adapt/index.html
by googling (which also gave me a handy link to the archives).
https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-fedora/2009-June/000078.html
http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/a/adapt/adapt_1.0-4-3/r-cran-adapt.copyright
give a little more information.
library(findFn); sos("multidimensional+integration") found the
cubature package for me, which looks like a pretty good replacement but
which I haven't tried out yet.
My real question: has anyone actually tried to contact the authors and
find out if they are willing to put the code under a suitably
redistributable license? I can't find anything that suggests that they
*don't* want it redistributed ... ? Would it be helpful if I did this,
or is this the sort of thing the package maintainer should do?
Ben,
the package maintainer is the one who decides about the license under
the given restrictions. I guess you meant the CRAN maintainer?
Anyway, be sure that the package maintainer has been notified about the
license problem by the CRAN maintainers. The CRAN maintainers do not
remove a package without asking the corresponding package maintainer
(most often more than once) to fix open issues.
Best wishes,
Uwe
Mike Meyer: mi...@andrew.cmu.edu
Alan Genz: g...@gauss.math.wsu.edu
cheers
Ben Bolker
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