Thank you for the explanation Uwe.

With regards,
Tal


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On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 10:42 AM, Uwe Ligges <
ligges@statistik.tu-dortmund.de> wrote:

>
>
> On 26.01.2012 09:39, Barry Rowlingson wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 8:02 AM, Uwe Ligges
>> <ligges@statistik.tu-dortmund.**de <ligges@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<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 been archived, doSMP depends on it and therefore went to the archives as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
>

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