Licenses on Submissions to CRAN
Douglas Bates
bates@stat.wisc.edu
02 Feb 1998 13:37:32 -0600
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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