* Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [031231 04:10]: > Debian R Policy > Draft Proposal - v 0.1.3 [...] > > December 30, 2003 [...] > The R system has its own concept of packages that provide base functionality > and extensions for the language. The Debian r-base-core package installs 15 > required R packages in the directory /usr/lib/R/library. The Debian package > r-recommended installs another 13 R packages in the same directory.
This is just some small suggestion: Having explicit numbers without any qualifier will demand you to adopt these with any new revision. Some phrase like "currently (as in Dec 2003)" might cure some future overlooks. > 3.2.2 debian/copyright > > The copyright file typically consists of three sections. First, > information about the package, its author and purpose are briefly > stated. Second, the canonical source of the package is identified. Third, > the copyright information is stated. As Debian adheres to the Debian Free > Software Guidelines (http://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines), > only software that matches this criteria can be added to the Debian > archive. As CRAN follows a similar spirit, most R packages should be > suitable but packagers of prospective R packages should be careful to > ensure that the R package is DFSG-free. Here could be added the tip to ask debian-legal, if the licence has not be decided upon. It sometimes confused people that DFSG and OSD are so similar but are sometimes differently interpreted. > ........................................................................... > This is the Debian GNU/Linux r-cran-car package of car, the Companion to > Applied Regression package for GNU R. Car was written by John Fox. > > This package was created by Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. > The sources were downloaded from > http://cran.us.r-project.org/src/contrib/ [...] > Car is copyright John Fox and released under the GNU General Public License > (GPL). > > On a Debian GNU/Linux system, the GPL license is included in the file > /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL. > [...] > Author: John Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. I am grateful to Douglas Bates, > David Firth, Michael Friendly, Georges Monette, Brian Ripley, and > Sanford Weisberg for various suggestions. > Maintainer: John Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [...] > License: GPL version 2 or newer > URL: http://www.r-project.org, http:/www.socsci.mcmaster.ca/jfox/ > ........................................................................... I think here a bit better example could be nicer. While the information can be found in the later trunk, some note would be nice, that the copyright file should list: - anyone owning copyright (not only upstream author, though that may be the same in most cases) best together with some way to contact him (i.e. the e-mail address given). - The exact license given. The "version 2" is important information and the "or newer" could becaume important in the future. Some people also demand some form with "Copyright", and C in an circle and a year of creation as information needed by some historic international treaty, but I think that is even historic in the US. Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- Sendmail is like emacs: A nice operating system, but missing an editor and a MTA. ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
