Status Rmetrics for R 2.6.0

[Achim Zeileis]

On Tue, 9 Oct 2007, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:

> On 9 October 2007 at 16:27, Martin Maechler wrote:
> |     DE> i)  You didn't fix the dependence on akima. Or at least you didn't tell us.
> |
> | Apropos :  I don't quite understand why akima has a licence issue
> | just because of a TOMS algorithm,
>
> Yes, maybe we can get akima relicensed. That would help in several places.
>
> | when R itself uses TOMS algorithms in quite a few places.
> | Is it just because R does so more covertly?
>
> Possibly. I think I once tries to bring that up on r-devel a few years ago,
> but it went nowhere.

I had a similar problem for "lmtest" which uses an AS algorithm. At the 
time, I asked Kurt and Fritz whether I could take these things and release 
them under the GPL. IIRC, Fritz said that R also uses AS algorithms and in 
the early days of R somehow asked AS for permission to do that. Hence, his 
recommendation was to simply assume that this permission also extends to 
contributed packages.

Maybe asking again explicitely would be more polite...but not asking again 
never produced problems for "lmtest".
Z