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

[Uwe Ligges]

On 26.01.2012 09:39, Barry Rowlingson wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 8:02 AM, Uwe Ligges
> <ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de>  wrote:
>>
>>
>> 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?
>>
>>
>>
>> If legal issues were the reason, you had not found it in the archives
>> anymore.
>>
>
>   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

Before people start with even more speculations: Reason is that the 
revoIPC package does no compile on modern versions of gcc and hence has 
been archived, doSMP depends on it and therefore went to the archives as 
well.

Uwe Ligges