Thanks everyone.  Now I know that I should not include another copy of the
license, but where should I refer to the copies on
http://www.r-project.org/Licenses/? In the DESCRIPTION file?

Stacey


On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 12:16 PM, Marc Schwartz <marc_schwartz@me.com>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@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
>
>

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