On 14 October 2010 at 11:16, Marc Schwartz wrote:
| On Oct 14, 2010, at 11:13 AM, Berwin A Turlach wrote:
|
| > G'day Marc,
| >
| > On Thu, 14 Oct 2010 10:46:39 -0500
| > Marc Schwartz <marc_schwa...@me.com> wrote:
| >
| >> If you want (and you should), create and include a file called
| >> "COPYING" in the 'inst' folder in the package, so that it gets copied
| >> to the main package directory upon installation. [...]
| >
| > But that would be against the wishes of R core, from the "Writing R
| > Extension" manual:
| >
| > Whereas you should feel free to include a license file in your
| > source distribution, please do not arrange to @emph{install} yet
| > another copy of the @acronym{GNU} @file{COPYING} or
| > @file{COPYING.LIB} files but refer to the copies on
| > @url{http://www.r-project.org/Licenses/} and included in the
| > @R{} distribution (in directory @file{share/licenses}).
| >
| > :)
| >
| > Cheers,
| >
| > Berwin
|
|
| Yep. I stand corrected on that point. :-)
As a minor addition, keeping COPYING in the top-level (as per my earlier
email) appears to satisfy the wishes of those at the FSF (include COPYING) as
well as R Core (do not install COPYING)) -- where files in inst/ will always
get installed. It's also simply more visible at the top-level.
Dirk
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