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[Duncan Murdoch]

On 09/11/2021 8:27 a.m., Arnaud FELD wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I use that mailing list because I’ve tried to send a message to the
> r-core address and received :
> 
>> "Non-members are typically *NOT* allowed to post messages to this
>> private developers' list. Please use an appropriate mailing list (from
>> http://www.r-project.org/mail.html). For R packages, use
>> maintainer("<pkg>") in R (and if that is R-core using .., use the R-help
>> address).
> 
>   I would like to borrow most of the code of stats :: window within my
> package disaggR, which has an uncompatible license as it is MIT not
> GPL2. window has some extra overhead because of the calling of time()
> at the beginning of the function (that is only used for extend =
> FALSE). Copying the function and modifying it would allow me a bit of
> optimization, but I need some agreement as my package is MIT.
> Is it possible ?

I would assume not.  Most of R has many, many authors, and some of us 
will not agree to changing the license to a more permissive form.

Duncan Murdoch