[R] (no subject)

Duncan Murdoch
Tue, 09 Nov 2021 20:19:18 -0000

On 09/11/2021 8:27 a.m., Arnaud FELD wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I use that mailing list because I?ve tried to send a message to the
> r-core address and received :
>
>> "Non-members are typically *NOT* allowed to post messages to this
>> private developers' list. Please use an appropriate mailing list
(from
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>> maintainer("<pkg>") in R (and if that is R-core at ..,
use the R-help
>> address).
>
>   I would like to borrow most of the code of stats :: window within my
> package disaggR, which has an uncompatible license as it is MIT not
> GPL2. window has some extra overhead because of the calling of time()
> at the beginning of the function (that is only used for extend > FALSE).
Copying the function and modifying it would allow me a bit of
> optimization, but I need some agreement as my package is MIT.
> Is it possible ?

I would assume not.  Most of R has many, many authors, and some of us
will not agree to changing the license to a more permissive form.

Duncan Murdoch