Thanks everyone. Now I know that I should not include another copy of the license, but where should I refer to the copies on http://www.r-project.org/Licenses/? In the DESCRIPTION file?
Stacey On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 12:16 PM, Marc Schwartz <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 <[email protected]> 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 > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ [email protected] 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.
