Dear list member, I have become confused about the YEAR that should be specified for a MIT license. In the current version on CRAN (4.1-10) the YEAR is specified as 2018, this being the year that I applied a MIT license to the package.
I changed the YEAR to 2018-2019 before submitting version 4.1-21 of the package to CRAN and this generated the following NOTE: * checking CRAN incoming feasibility ... NOTE Maintainer: 'Chris Brien <chris.br...@unisa.edu.au>' License components with restrictions and base license permitting such: MIT + file LICENSE File 'LICENSE': YEAR: 2018-2019 COPYRIGHT HOLDER: CHRIS BRIEN I had submitted this version of the package with the YEAR as 2018 to rhub and received a similar message. So it seemed that I needed to revise the YEAR. I had read on the web that the YEAR should cover those years in which a version had been released and that a range of years is fine, hence the change to 2018-2019. Can anyone tell me what I need to do to have a valid YEAR specification that also fits with what CRAN requires? My best guess is that CRAN cannot deal with a range of values for YEARS and that I should specify 2019, because the version that I am submitting was generated in 2019. However, I want to be sure before resubmitting. Thanks in advance for any help, Cheers, Chris ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
