[R] Where: package licenses

[Thomas Lumley]

On Tue, 30 Mar 2004 Jason.L.Higbee at stls.frb.org wrote:

> R:
>
> This stems from my curiosity about the previous thread about  a request
> for glm.nb code.  The issue of package licenses was brought up and I was
> hoping for some clarification on that.  Using the function license() or
> licence() gives info on the license for R, but something like
> license(MASS) does not give info on the license for the MASS package
> (perhaps it might be good to expand the license function in the way
> described).  A quick look on CRAN didn't yield any info on package
> licenses either.

The DESCRIPTION file for a package lists the license; this is also given
in the CRAN entry for each package.

	-thomas