In case you're thinking of putting the package on CRAN, note also from
the CRAN policy https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/policies.html:
> Packages with licenses not listed at
https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/share/licenses/license.db will
generally not be accepted.
On 2023-08-09 11:15 a.m., Ben Bolker wrote:
You have two choices:
* put LICENSE in your .Rbuildignore file so that it shows up on Github
but is excluded from the package
* follow the instructions in
https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-exts.html#Licensing to refer to
LICENSE in your DESCRIPTION file. However, CRAN generally prefers that
you use a standard license ("GPL-2", "GPL-3"), to make it easier for
them to know that you've really complied with their openness
requirements, and that you *not* include a license file that is
redundant with that spec:
> 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). Since files named LICENSE or LICENCE will
be installed, do not use these names for standard license files. To
include comments about the licensing rather than the body of a license,
use a file named something like LICENSE.note.
On 2023-08-09 11:06 a.m., Emanuele Cordano wrote:
Dear list,
is there a way to put the LICENSE file within an R package like in
Github,
I have an R package on Github with a a LICENSE file compliant to
Github and
containing the text of the licence citing in the DESCRIPION file. But
when
I check the package , I obatained the following output:
* checking top-level files ... NOTE
File
LICENSE
is not mentioned in the DESCRIPTION file.
How can I solve this?
Thank you
best
Emanuele Cordano
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