[R] declaring GPL license

[Marc Schwartz]

On Oct 14, 2010, at 11:13 AM, Berwin A Turlach wrote:

> G'day Marc,
> 
> On Thu, 14 Oct 2010 10:46:39 -0500
> Marc Schwartz <marc_schwartz at me.com> wrote:
> 
>> If you want (and you should), create and include a file called
>> "COPYING" in the 'inst' folder in the package, so that it gets copied
>> to the main package directory upon installation. [...]
> 
> But that would be against the wishes of R core, from the "Writing R
> Extension" manual:
> 
> 	Whereas you should feel free to include a license file in your
> 	source distribution, please do not arrange to @emph{install} yet
> 	another copy of the @acronym{GNU} @file{COPYING} or
> 	@file{COPYING.LIB} files but refer to the copies on
> 	@url{http://www.r-project.org/Licenses/} and included in the
> 	@R{} distribution (in directory @file{share/licenses}).
> 
> :)
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> 	Berwin


Yep. I stand corrected on that point. :-)

Thanks also to Prof. Ripley, who noted my error as well.

Regards,

Marc