Message-ID: <db993691-1d48-632f-1ab0-c2868da8a4fc@gmail.com>
Date: 2023-08-09T15:15:30Z
From: Ben Bolker
Subject: [R-pkg-devel] LICENSE file in an R package for CRAN submission
In-Reply-To: <CAKw81f9o8MYv9x5-j54G-reur8q+DXQY1vdmmV0HfZJnFnjghg@mail.gmail.com>
You have two choices:
* put LICENSE in your .Rbuildignore file so that it shows up on Github
but is excluded from the package
* follow the instructions in
https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-exts.html#Licensing to refer to
LICENSE in your DESCRIPTION file. However, CRAN generally prefers that
you use a standard license ("GPL-2", "GPL-3"), to make it easier for
them to know that you've really complied with their openness
requirements, and that you *not* include a license file that is
redundant with that spec:
> 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). Since files named LICENSE or LICENCE will
be installed, do not use these names for standard license files. To
include comments about the licensing rather than the body of a license,
use a file named something like LICENSE.note.
On 2023-08-09 11:06 a.m., Emanuele Cordano wrote:
> Dear list,
>
> is there a way to put the LICENSE file within an R package like in Github,
> I have an R package on Github with a a LICENSE file compliant to Github and
> containing the text of the licence citing in the DESCRIPION file. But when
> I check the package , I obatained the following output:
>
> * checking top-level files ... NOTE
> File
> LICENSE
>
> is not mentioned in the DESCRIPTION file.
>
> How can I solve this?
> Thank you
> best
> Emanuele Cordano
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