Hi Andreas,
This isn't a patch to my spdep/inst/README file. I have no knowledge of
any debian/copyright file, and cannot take responsibility for that (I
don't think installing from source is a problem for non-OSX/Windows users;
I do not use Debian systems, and do not know anything about their
packaging systems other than very bad experiences with people with messed
up GIS packages). If you want me to patch anything, diff from
spdep/inst/README on R-forge. In particular:
Copyright: 2005 Yongwan Chun, Michael Tiefelsdorf and Roger Bivand
License: GPL-2+
looks very wrong. The list of contributors is in spdep/DESCRIPTION in R
standard parsable form;
+Files: R/bptest.sarlm.R
+Copyright: 1998 Joseph O'Rourke <orou...@cs.smith.edu>
isn't the correct file - should be src/soigraph.c.
I'd be grateful if you'd run any (unneeded) copyright file by me before
proceeding. If such a file is needed, it should only point to the correct
file within the R package (otherwise they will get out of sync).
As you can see, the "decision" of a "master" is of very little use to me,
I'll humour your attempts if you do things right, but have no need to see
spdep distributed in this way - Debian users should IMO always install R
packages from source to avoid unintended incompatibilities.
Best wishes,
Roger
On Wed, 30 Jul 2014, Andreas Tille wrote:
Hi Roger,
thanks for your very fast response. I keep our ftpmaster in CC since he
finally needs to decide. I attached a proposed diff for the
debian/copyright file.
On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 05:12:58PM +0200, Roger Bivand wrote:
Hi Andreas,
On Wed, 30 Jul 2014, Andreas Tille wrote:
Hi Roger,
I tried to package spdep for Debian on behalf of the Debian Science team.
The Debian ftpmaster had some issues before he will accept the package.
Could you please clarify the points below.
Thanks a lot and also thanks for providing spdep as free software
Andreas.
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Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 11:51:55 +0000
From: Thorsten Alteholz <ftpmas...@ftp-master.debian.org>
To: Debian Science Team <debian-science-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>, Andreas
Tille <ti...@debian.org>
Cc: Debian FTP Masters <ftpmas...@ftp-master.debian.org>
Subject: Comments regarding r-cran-spdep_0.5-74-1_amd64.changes
Hi Andreas,
according to spdep/inst/README parts of src/soigraph.c are taken from
a publication of Camebridge University Press. Can you please confirm
that the license is really GPLv2+?
The code at:
http://cs.smith.edu/~orourke/books/ftp.html
http://cs.smith.edu/~orourke/CGCode/SecondEdition/Ccode2.tar.gz
includes arm/arm.c with the affected functions. This file has:
/*
This code is described in "Computational Geometry in C" (Second Edition),
Chapter 8. It is not written to be comprehensible without the
explanation in that book.
Prints out one arm configuration to reach given target.
Assumes number of links >= 3.
Input:
nlinks Number of links
L1 L2 ... Ln Link lengths
x0 y0 target0
x1 x2 target1
...
Written by Joseph O'Rourke.
Last modified: December 1997
Questions to orou...@cs.smith.edu.
--------------------------------------------------------------------
This code is Copyright 1998 by Joseph O'Rourke. It may be freely
redistributed in its entirety provided that this copyright notice is
not removed.
--------------------------------------------------------------------
*/
I think this is fine so far.
The file src/soigraph.c has:
/* Copyright 2001 by Nicholas Lewin-Koh. ****
* NOTE
* The subroutines TwoCirclesxx and SubVec are adapted for R and Double
* precision coordinates by Nicholas Lewin-Koh, from Computational
* Geometry in C, Joseph O'Rourke, Cambridge University Press
* (1998). Copyright for those subroutines remains his.
****/
(slightly edited on R-forge to cite the arm/arm.c file)
which we would argue meets the requirements of the copyright holder.
If you disagree, it may be possible to reproduce the functionality
using another R package.
I'm not sure about this but id definitely does not sound like GPLv? For
me this statement does not include any license statement at all.
Thorsten, what do you think?
spdep/R/bptest.sarlm.R seems to be just GPLv2 and not GPLv2+, doesn't it?
From:
http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/lmtest/index.html
lmtest now is GPL-2 | GPL-3; R source file in spdep updated.
Hope this helps,
Yes, it does to discuss things further. Thanks a lot
Andreas.
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