R-beta: Submissions to CRAN

[Friedrich Leisch]

>>>>> On Fri, 30 Jan 1998 11:38:07 -0800 (PST),
>>>>> Thomas Lumley (TL) wrote:

TL> On Fri, 30 Jan 1998, Friedrich Leisch wrote:
>> **********************************************************
>> 
>> Package: e1071
>> Version: 0.7-3
>> Author: Compiled by Fritz Leisch <Friedrich.Leisch@ci.tuwien.ac.at>.
>> Description: Miscellaneous functions used at the Department of
>> Statistics at TU Wien (E1071). 
>> Copyright: GPL
>> 
>> **********************************************************
>> 

>> 
>> PLEASE MAKE SURE TO INCLUDE A COPYRIGHT LINE IN THE DESCRIPTION!!!
>> 

TL> I think we should be more careful to distinguish between copyright and
TL> licensing conditions (eg R is copyright Ross & Robert, and licensed GPL, 
TL> survival4 is copyrighted by the Mayo Foundation and licensed for free
TL> distribution and use without modification). 

Ooops ... sorry but English is not my mother tongue ... and my
knowledge is probably better suited to ordering a beer in a 
pub than to legal matters :-) ... so please excuse the confusion ...

Of course I want license information, not copyright information ...

So is it ok if we change the above to something like

**********************************************************

Package: e1071
Version: 0.7-3
Author: Compiled by Fritz Leisch <Friedrich.Leisch@ci.tuwien.ac.at>.
Description: Miscellaneous functions used at the Department of
Statistics at TU Wien (E1071). 
License: GPL

**********************************************************


or is it better if we use the keyword `Copying'?

I also want to complile a list of known Licenses:

	GPL
	BSD
	Artistic

These (and similar ones) are what Debian considers `free'.

How should we treat the rest? Providing some more keywords or have
people explain it in detail in the DESCRIPTION file?


Best,
Fritz
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