On Saturday, September 12, 2020, Hugh Parsonage <hugh.parson...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Perhaps I have misread that excerpt from WRE, but my read is that > package authors should not duplicate GNU COPYING, since it is present > in all R distributions already when using GPL-2 and friends. It > doesn't apply to packages distributed with other licenses. > > The directory to which it refers, https://www.r-project.org/Licenses/, includes many open source licenses, not just those used for R. I’m also pretty sure I’ve had a package fail CRAN submission for this problem in the past. > It should be noted that in GPL FAQ just below the part you quoted it says > > A clear statement in the program's README file is legally sufficient as > long as that accompanies the code, but it is easy for them to get separated. > That question (https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.en.html#LicenseCopyOnly) is about whether a copy of the license in a file is sufficient, or whether you must also include a statement at the top of every source file. Hadley -- http://hadley.nz [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
