[R] Where: package licenses

[Douglas Bates]

Thomas Lumley <tlumley at u.washington.edu> writes:

> 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.

and in the result of

help(package = "MASS")