r-cran-spdep_0.6-4-1_amd64.changes REJECTED

[Roger Bivand]

I've now spent three hours complying, IMHO far more than was sensible. The 
questioned code is gone, despite my not agreeing with your complaints, nor 
seeing that you were willing to contribute a replacement. Check out spdep 
from R-Forge, and reply rapidly confirming that no further changes are 
needed.

Roger


On Mon, 30 May 2016, Andreas Tille wrote:

> Hi Roger,
>
> On Mon, May 30, 2016 at 05:51:57PM +0200, Roger Bivand wrote:
>> Please tell them that I am not willing to make any further changes. If they
>> bothered to look, they would have seen that the functions are not simply
>> copied from arm.c, but modified to use double rather than integer
>> coordinates. I can add arm.c for documentation and change the soigraph.c
>> function names to show that they are modified from those in arm.c, but I do
>> not see the point.
>
> I think the point is pretty clear:  Its no question that you changed
> something but if you have permission to change the existing files is the
> basic question.  To quote again:
>
>   This book is in copyright. (...) no reproduction of any part may take
>   place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press.
>
> So did you got the written permission of  Cambridge University Press?
> If yes, could you please attach a copy of this permission to the code.
>
> Kind regards
>
>       Andreas.
>
>> Best wishes,
>>
>> Roger
>>
>> On Mon, 30 May 2016, Andreas Tille wrote:
>>
>>> Hi again Roger,
>>>
>>> this is just a ping in case you might have missed my last mail about the
>>> licensing of the file copied from "Computational Geometry in C".  Were
>>> you able to clarify the issue or to rewrite the code in question?
>>>
>>> Thanks for your cooperation
>>>
>>>      Andreas.
>>>
>>> On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 05:26:09PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
>>>> Hi Roger,
>>>>
>>>> I'm afraid I need to come back to you again about the licensing of the
>>>> file in question in the spdep package.  Please read below what the
>>>> Debian ftpmasters think about the license:
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 01:00:23PM +0000, Thorsten Alteholz wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi Andreas,
>>>>>
>>>>> ok, one step further, but two questions remain:
>>>>>
>>>>> - "... in its entirety ...", not being a native speaker, but for me that
>>>>>  sounds like you are only allowed to distribute the whole example code
>>>>>  and are not allowed to use just parts of it
>>>>> - anyway, the main point is that you are only allowed to redistribute
>>>>>  the code but have no permission to modify it, which is against DFSG 3.
>>>>>
>>>>>  Thorsten
>>>>
>>>> I'm sorry that this is such a longish process bit it would be really
>>>> cool if you could have another look or try to contact the authors (or
>>>> rewrite this code? - I think in some previous conversation you wrote
>>>> about this option as well).
>>>>
>>>> Kind regards and thanks for your cooperation
>>>>
>>>>      Andreas.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> http://fam-tille.de
>>>
>>>
>>
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>> Roger Bivand
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Roger Bivand
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Helleveien 30, N-5045 Bergen, Norway.
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