[R] Why was the ‘doSMP’ package removed from CRAN?

[Barry Rowlingson]

On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 8:02 AM, Uwe Ligges
<ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de> wrote:
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> On 25.01.2012 22:20, Tal Galili wrote:

>> Does any one know the reason for this?
>> Is this a technical or a legal (e.g: license) issue?
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> If legal issues were the reason, you had not found it in the archives
> anymore.
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 Licensing can change - as a copyright holder I could decide the next
release of my package is going to be under a proprietary license that
doesn't allow redistribution. Any code already released under
something like the GPL can't be forcibly removed, and people can make
new forks from those, but if I'm the only person writing it and I
decide to change the license and the latest free version isn't
compatible with the current version of R then I'd expect to see the
old versions in the archives and no version for the latest version of
R.

 Last checkin at R-forge was only six weeks ago, and 1.0-3 installs
fine on my latest R:

 https://r-forge.r-project.org/scm/?group_id=950

I suspect they just haven't pushed it to R-forge yet. Cockup before conspiracy.

Barry