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