On Oct 14, 2010, at 11:13 AM, Berwin A Turlach wrote:
> G'day Marc,
>
> On Thu, 14 Oct 2010 10:46:39 -0500
> Marc Schwartz <marc_schwa...@me.com> wrote:
>
>> If you want (and you should), create and include a file called
>> "COPYING" in the 'inst' folder in the package, so that it gets copied
>> to the main package directory upon installation. [...]
>
> But that would be against the wishes of R core, from the "Writing R
> Extension" manual:
>
> Whereas you should feel free to include a license file in your
> source distribution, please do not arrange to @emph{install} yet
> another copy of the @acronym{GNU} @file{COPYING} or
> @file{COPYING.LIB} files but refer to the copies on
> @url{http://www.r-project.org/Licenses/} and included in the
> @R{} distribution (in directory @file{share/licenses}).
>
> :)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Berwin
Yep. I stand corrected on that point. :-)
Thanks also to Prof. Ripley, who noted my error as well.
Regards,
Marc
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