[R-pkg-devel] License note on CRAN submission

[Chris Brien]

Hi Uwe,

Deleting the blank line and resubmitting to rhub indicates that the problem has been fixed.

You are right that the extra blank line did not cause a problem before, specifically on 2019-01-09. Mystifying!

However, hopefully all good now.

Cheers,

  Chris



From: Uwe Ligges [mailto:ligges using statistik.tu-dortmund.de]
Sent: Monday, 4 March 2019 7:16 PM
To: Chris Brien; 'r-package-devel using r-project.org'
Subject: Re: [R-pkg-devel] License note on CRAN submission



On 04.03.2019 05:34, Chris Brien wrote:
> I recently submitted an updated version of my package asremlPlus to CRAN and it did not pass incoming checks automatically because there were 3 Notes.
>
> One Note was straightforward to fix and using rhub::check_for_cran I having verified that it is fixed. The rhub response from Windows server 2008 r-devel and Fedora linux, r-devel, clang was as follows:
>
> -----
> License components with restrictions and base license permitting such:
> MIT + file LICENSE
> File 'LICENSE':
> YEAR: 2019
>
> COPYRIGHT HOLDER: CHRIS BRIEN


Looks like you have an extra line between YEAR and COPYRIGHT HOLDER?
Simply omitting that should solve the issue.

Nevertheless, I do not believe you had a lot trouble getting this to
CRAN in the past.

Best,
Uwe Ligges





>
> Suggests or Enhances not in mainstream repositories:
> asreml
> * checking package dependencies ... NOTE
> Package which this enhances but not available for checking: 'asreml'
> ---
>
> The second note (concerning asreml) is expected and means that asremlPlus will never pass the incoming check automatically.
>
> However, the first note concerning the license is not one that I had received on previous submissions, the most recent prior submission being 9/01/2019. The only change that has been made to the LICENSE file since then is the YEAR.
>
> The thing is that I do not know what is giving rise to the message and I need help to work out how to proceed. I do not want to resubmit to CRAN if there is some modification that I should make that will remove the License note.
>
> So, is the message
> (1) one that I should now expect, given the MIT license, and I can resubmit to CRAN,
> (2) an indication of a problem with the license that is now being detected and needs to be fixed, or
> (3) an indication of some other problem that needs attention?
>
> Any help is much appreciated,
>
> Cheers,
>
> Chris
>
> PS The package is at https://github.com/briencj/asremlPlus<https://github.com/briencj/asremlPlus>.
>
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