I rather feel that this discussion has gone beyond a topic and tone suitable
for r-devel. I would like to say however, as an author of several GPL works
myself, that I am confident that REvolution Computing (my employer, in case
that's not clear) is a good-faith member of the open-source community
but that is not up to you or your lawyers. That is between the
FSF and her.
Ian
From: r-devel-boun...@r-project.org [r-devel-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf
Of Matthew Dowle [mdo...@mdowle.plus.com]
Sent: Sunday, April 26, 2009 7:21 PM
To: Danese Coop
Dear Danese,
Without prejudice save as to costs
I am the author of the R library "data.table". I released data.table under the
provisions of the General Public License (GPL). This email is to notify
REvolution that we may be in dispute. If we are in dispute then I am entitled
to issue litigat
Howdy all...
Reading with interest the thread(s) about REvolution, package
licensing and the requirements of the GPL.
First of all, let me introduce myself . I joined REvolution Computing
in February, after working for nearly 4 years for Intel as an open
source strategist and before that for 6 ye
