[R] Where: package licenses

[Sundar Dorai-Raj]

You can access this from within R using

package.description("MASS")[["License"]]

package.description attempts to parse the DESCRIPTION file.

-sundar

Jason.L.Higbee at stls.frb.org wrote:
> Thanks Thomas and Marc that is what I was looking for.
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> -Jason
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> The DESCRIPTION file for a package lists the license; this is also given
> in the CRAN entry for each package.
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>                  -thomas
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> Marc Schwartz <MSchwartz at MedAnalytics.com>
> 03/30/2004 09:02 AM
> Please respond to MSchwartz
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>  
>         To:     Jason.L.Higbee at stls.frb.org
>         cc:     R-Help <r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch>
>         Subject:        Re: [R] Where: package licenses
> 
> On Tue, 2004-03-30 at 08:51, Jason.L.Higbee at stls.frb.org wrote: 
> 
>>R:
>>
>>This stems from my curiosity about the previous thread about  a
>>request 
>>for glm.nb code.  The issue of package licenses was brought up and I
>>was 
>>hoping for some clarification on that.  Using the function license()
>>or 
>>licence() gives info on the license for R, but something like 
>>license(MASS) does not give info on the license for the MASS package 
>>(perhaps it might be good to expand the license function in the way 
>>described).  A quick look on CRAN didn't yield any info on package 
>>licenses either. 
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> For the CRAN add on packages (which includes the 'recommended'
> packages), each has the license information under the description. For
> example, MASS which is part of the VR bundle, is here:
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> http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/PACKAGES.html#VR
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> The information is as follows:
> 
> ...
> License: GPL (version 2 or later)
> ...
> 
> Some of the packages are released under other licenses or have
> restrictions on commercial use or distribution. Read each one carefully.
> 
> HTH,
> 
> Marc Schwartz
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