[R] declaring GPL license

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 14 October 2010 at 11:06, Stacey Wood wrote:
| Hi all,
| 
| I'm currently writing an R package and want to declare a GPL2 license.
| According to the license agreement, I'm supposed to display:
| 
|   "This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
|    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
|    the Free Software Foundation ... See the
|    GNU General Public License for more details."
| 
| When I add this statement to the description file, the package cannot be
| processed.  Where should I add this statement to appropriately cite the
| license?

I suggested you do these two steps:

  1)  In the file DESCRIPTION, set the License: field accordingly.

  2)  In the top-level directory of your sources, include the file COPYING.

That should do.

Dirk, not a lawyer and not playing one on TV either

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