[R] declaring GPL license

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 14 October 2010 at 11:16, Marc Schwartz wrote:
| 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. :-)

As a minor addition, keeping COPYING in the top-level (as per my earlier
email) appears to satisfy the wishes of those at the FSF (include COPYING) as
well as R Core (do not install COPYING)) -- where files in inst/ will always
get installed.   It's also simply more visible at the top-level.

Dirk

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