Hi all, I'd like to remind everyone that the GPL license grants irrevocable rights to the public to use, modify, propagate, and convey verbatim or modified versions of the software under the same license, without permission. See for example, FAQ https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#WhyDoesTheGPLPermitUsersToPublishTheirModifiedVersions
Bioconductor should either deprecate or assign a new maintainer in consideration of any impacts on all users and developers of Bioconductor software. Sincerely, Levi — Levi Waldron Professor and Chair Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy Institute for Implementation Science in Population Health 55 W 125th St, New York NY 10035 https://waldronlab.io Join the microbiome Virtual International Forum: https://microbiome-vif.org On Sat, Aug 9, 2025 at 3:49 AM Vincent Carey <st...@channing.harvard.edu> wrote: > Dear Dr Blighe -- > > I am writing to acknowledge receipt of your statement. Methods for > deprecating > packages are reviewed in the contributor guidelines: > > > https://contributions.bioconductor.org/package-end-of-life-policy.html#package-end-of-life-policy > > The deprecation process will begin ASAP. Key staff are absent for the > coming week but we > take your statement very seriously and will accommodate your wishes. > > Thank you for your participation in the project. > > Sincerely, > Vincent Carey > > > On Fri, Aug 8, 2025 at 7:52 PM Blighe, Kevin (Dr) > <ke...@clinicalbioinformatics.co.uk> wrote: > > > > > > I wish to make this statement: > > > > Bioconductor no longer has my expressed permission to build my packages > on their platforms, namely: > > > > EnhancedVolcano > > PCAtools > > scDataviz > > RegParallel > > > > > > Please cease from building and releasing these packages on future > Bioconductor releases. Please regard them as deprecated as of today, August > 9, 2025. > > > > Failure to abide by this order will result in legal action. > > > > Kind regards, > > Kevin > > > > Kevin Blighe, B.Sc. (Hons.), Ph.D. > > Clinical Bioinformatics Research > > -- > The information in this email is intended only for the...{{dropped:10}} _______________________________________________ Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel
