On 14 October 2010 at 11:06, Stacey Wood wrote: | Hi all, | | I'm currently writing an R package and want to declare a GPL2 license. | According to the license agreement, I'm supposed to display: | | "This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify | it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by | the Free Software Foundation ... See the | GNU General Public License for more details." | | When I add this statement to the description file, the package cannot be | processed. Where should I add this statement to appropriately cite the | license?
I suggested you do these two steps: 1) In the file DESCRIPTION, set the License: field accordingly. 2) In the top-level directory of your sources, include the file COPYING. That should do. Dirk, not a lawyer and not playing one on TV either -- Dirk Eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org | http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
