Re: [R-pkg-devel] Pkgs with ToS violations

2016-08-04 Thread Bob Rudis
Thx folks. I didn't mean to cause a stir :-) I've had colleagues receive cease & desists (and worse) before and it's been my experience that a large # of folks have no idea these type of cite restrictions exist. -Bob On Thu, Aug 4, 2016 at 6:36 AM, Uwe Ligges wrote: > CRAN will follow up with t

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Pkgs with ToS violations

2016-08-04 Thread Barry Rowlingson
ROpenSci's onboarding process has a checkbox for confirming that the package "does not violate the Terms of Service of any service it interacts with.": https://github.com/ropensci/onboarding/blob/master/issue_template.md I also have a vague memory of this discussion a few years ago on R-help/-dev

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Pkgs with ToS violations

2016-08-04 Thread Uwe Ligges
CRAN will follow up with the package maintainer. Best, Uwe Ligges On 04.08.2016 10:50, peter dalgaard wrote: On 04 Aug 2016, at 05:21 , Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: On 3 August 2016 at 22:26, Bob Rudis wrote: | I came across https://cran.rstudio.com/web/packages/boxoffice/index.html | in CRAN

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Pkgs with ToS violations

2016-08-04 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 03/08/2016 10:26 PM, Bob Rudis wrote: I came across https://cran.rstudio.com/web/packages/boxoffice/index.html in CRAN today and while I don't expect CRAN to be a legal authority, should there not be some kind of policy for excluding R packages that deliberately violate (data) site ToS? (I'm a

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Pkgs with ToS violations

2016-08-04 Thread peter dalgaard
On 04 Aug 2016, at 05:21 , Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > > On 3 August 2016 at 22:26, Bob Rudis wrote: > | I came across https://cran.rstudio.com/web/packages/boxoffice/index.html > | in CRAN today and while I don't expect CRAN to be a legal authority, > | should there not be some kind of policy f

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Pkgs with ToS violations

2016-08-03 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 3 August 2016 at 22:26, Bob Rudis wrote: | I came across https://cran.rstudio.com/web/packages/boxoffice/index.html | in CRAN today and while I don't expect CRAN to be a legal authority, | should there not be some kind of policy for excluding R packages that | deliberately violate (data) site T

[R-pkg-devel] Pkgs with ToS violations

2016-08-03 Thread Bob Rudis
I came across https://cran.rstudio.com/web/packages/boxoffice/index.html in CRAN today and while I don't expect CRAN to be a legal authority, should there not be some kind of policy for excluding R packages that deliberately violate (data) site ToS? (I'm asking this here vs sending a note to CRAN f