[R-pkg-devel] Recurrent link timeout for common license at R CMD check

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 26 September 2025 at 15:34, Greg Hunt wrote:
| It is preferable to deliver, as part of the package, the text of the
| license that you intend people to read, not something under someone else's
| control, and this is what the SPDX and FSF tools do.

You answer something that was never in any way part of my question. Per
Writing R Extensions, Section 1.1.2:

     Whereas you should feel free to include a license file in your
  _source_ distribution, please do not arrange to _install_ yet another
  copy of the GNU ‘COPYING’ or ‘COPYING.LIB’ files but refer to the copies
  on <https://www.R-project.org/Licenses/> and included in the R
  distribution (in directory ‘share/licenses’).

My question was *explicitly* about what URL *link* would be recommended to
avoid timing out under R CMD check (also see Subject: of this thread).

I think I may just link to the R-project site.

Dirk

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