Licenses on Submissions to CRAN

[Douglas Bates]

Friedrich Leisch <Friedrich.Leisch@ci.tuwien.ac.at> writes:

> So is it ok if we change the above to something like
> 
> **********************************************************
> 
> Package: e1071
> Version: 0.7-3
> Author: Compiled by Fritz Leisch <Friedrich.Leisch@ci.tuwien.ac.at>.
> Description: Miscellaneous functions used at the Department of
> Statistics at TU Wien (E1071). 
> License: GPL
> 
> **********************************************************

I hate to be picky but I think it would be better to have it a bit
more complete as in 

License: GPL version 2 or later

> or is it better if we use the keyword `Copying'?

I think License is better than Copying.

> I also want to complile a list of known Licenses:
> 
> 	GPL
> 	BSD
> 	Artistic
> 
> These (and similar ones) are what Debian considers `free'.


> How should we treat the rest? Providing some more keywords or have
> people explain it in detail in the DESCRIPTION file?

We might use a general phrase followed by a reference to the
DESCRIPTION file.  For example

License: Free for non-commercial use.  See the file DESCRIPTION for details.
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