As mentioned earlier I want to decentralize the package descriptions
of all contributed packages:
Please make sure to include a file called DESCRIPTION in every package
which looks like:
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Package: e1071
Version: 0.7-3
Author: Compiled by Fritz Leisch <Friedrich.Leisch at ci.tuwien.ac.at>.
Description: Miscellaneous functions used at the Department of
Statistics at TU Wien (E1071).
Copyright: GPL
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Further you can use a field called `Depends:' to include a
comma-seperated list of pre-requisited packages.
PLEASE MAKE SURE TO INCLUDE A COPYRIGHT LINE IN THE DESCRIPTION!!!
Continuation lines begin with a whitespace character (as in
Description above).
You can take the file $CRAN/src/contrib/PACKAGES as templates (but
don't forget to add the Copyright line :-). This file will be built
automatically by concatenating all DESCRIPTION files.
To all maintainers of current packages: Could you please update the
packages by including the DESCRIPTION file?
Best,
Fritz
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>>>>> 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 -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-devel mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-devel-request@stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
Hi again,
a fortnight ago I've sent an email concerning the package format for
submissions to CRAN ... it turned out that
a) my english wasn't good enough and
b) I hadn't given it enough thought :-)
Anyway, after some discussion here on this list (and some direct
emails) here is a new proposal summing everything up:
Every package should contain a file called DESCRIPTION in the top
directory (the one containing the R, man, src, ... dirs) looking 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).
Depends:
License: GPL version 2 or later
I've changed `Copyright' to `License'. This field should contain a
general phrase or well-known abbreviation, maybe followed by a
reference to the actual License file.
Examples:
License: GPL version 2 or later
License: Free for non-commercial use, see the file COPYRIGHT for details
Is this OK with everybody?
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The second thing is, if we want to have a single tar ball for each
package, or if one tar ball can contain several (closely related)
packages (like the dse tar file currently in CRAN/src/contrib/devel)
I'm not sure ... (first I said `No!', than Paul said `Why?' and I
had no
good answer so I said `Don't know') ... any preferences?
Best,
Fritz
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