Re: [Rd] serial connection patch

2010-04-27 Thread Matt Shotwell
Oh, I just put that there for the bit about "WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY" :). I am satisfied with GPLv2 and have updated the license notice to reflect a change from GPLv3 to GPLv2 or later. -Matt On Tue, 2010-04-27 at 09:33 -0400, Peter Dalgaard wrote: > On Apr 27, 2010, at 2:42 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote

Re: [Rd] serial connection patch

2010-04-27 Thread Peter Dalgaard
On Apr 27, 2010, at 2:42 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > On 27/04/2010 8:32 AM, Matt Shotwell wrote: >> Simon, >> Thanks for reviewing it! All the modified files are under the GPL >> version 2 (except the configure script). According to the GPLv2, I am >> granted permission to modify and redistribut

Re: [Rd] serial connection patch

2010-04-27 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 27/04/2010 8:32 AM, Matt Shotwell wrote: Simon, Thanks for reviewing it! All the modified files are under the GPL version 2 (except the configure script). According to the GPLv2, I am granted permission to modify and redistribute the code as long as I make a notice in the files of their modi

Re: [Rd] serial connection patch

2010-04-27 Thread Matt Shotwell
Simon, Thanks for reviewing it! All the modified files are under the GPL version 2 (except the configure script). According to the GPLv2, I am granted permission to modify and redistribute the code as long as I make a notice in the files of their modification and the date (which I have not done y

Re: [Rd] serial connection patch

2010-04-26 Thread Simon Urbanek
Matt, thanks for you efforts. We cannot directly use your patch due to licensing issues (please note the licenses in the files you are modifying - I don't think anyone can currently use the patch and redistribute the resulting R; also/or we may possibly need to clarify that the work is either d

[Rd] serial connection patch

2010-04-26 Thread Matt Shotwell
All, Our discussion of serial interfaces last week motivated me to dig into the R connections API. In short, I spent the weekend writing a patch for version 2.11.0 that adds a serial connection. I posted a blog entry that gives instructions for applying, configuring, and compiling the patched ver