[Bugs-r-devel] move BRugs from CRAN to CRAN extras

[Uwe L. <li...@st...>]

Dear BRugs developers,

since CRAN maintainers will look more closely on problems related to 
license issues in future, CRAN won't allow in any source package:

a) executables, binaries or other stuff that is shipped without sources 
(currently true for BRugs) - hence at least problematic if GPLed

b) executables, dlls and certain other kinds of binaries in general.

This is because we do not want to get into conflict with license issues 
or related problems. Being CRAN maintainer for Windows binary packages 
myself, I was involved in the discussion and I like and will support the 
decision. It makes life much easier for us CRAN people and hence we do 
not have one foot in jail already. ;-)


This means we will have to change the way BRugs is shipped. Since we 
cannot ship BRugs as is without including a binary, we have two options:

1. we can ship BRugs without the OpenBUGS dll, and ask users to install 
it separately (which most users won't understand)

2. (preferred from my point of view) move BRugs to the CRAN extras 
repository (automatically included in repository search list under R for 
Windows) maintained by Brian Ripley, who would also host a copy of the 
OpenBUGS sources that have been used for the OpenBUGS binaries included 
in the current version of BRugs - in order to be safely conform to GPL.

Any objections to 2. ?

Best wishes,
Uwe Ligges