R devel - Sep 2013 - FOSS licence with BuildVignettes: false

Dear All,

I have been checking the metafor package against R-devel. 

R CMD check --as-cran metafor

yields one note:

FOSS licence with BuildVignettes: false

Yes, I have 'BuildVignettes: FALSE' in my DESCRIPTION file. I see at
http://developer.r-project.org/blosxom.cgi/R-devel/NEWS:

Tue, 25 Jun 2013
CHANGES IN R-devel UTILITIES

    'R CMD check --as-cran' warns about a false value of the
'DESCRIPTION' field 'BuildVignettes' for Open Source packages,
and ignores it (as an Open Source package needs to have complete sources for its
vignettes).

My questions are:

1) Is this going to be an issue if I submit a new version of the metafor package
to CRAN right now?

2) And if the answer to 1 is "Not right now": Is this going to become
an issue in the future? In other words, is it the goal to only allow packages
with BuildVignettes=true if they have an FOSS license at some point in the
future?

Best,
Wolfgang

--   
Wolfgang Viechtbauer, Ph.D., Statistician   
Department of Psychiatry and Psychology   
School for Mental Health and Neuroscience   
Faculty of Health, Medicine, and Life Sciences   
Maastricht University, P.O. Box 616 (VIJV1)   
6200 MD Maastricht, The Netherlands   
+31 (43) 388-4170 | http://www.wvbauer.com

Setting

BuildVignettes: false

is fine if it is possible to build the vignettes, and the latter is 
checked in CRAN incoming checks (but not the daily checks).

Uwe Ligges








On 15.09.2013 22:13, Viechtbauer Wolfgang (STAT) wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I have been checking the metafor package against R-devel.
>
> R CMD check --as-cran metafor
>
> yields one note:
>
> FOSS licence with BuildVignettes: false
>
> Yes, I have 'BuildVignettes: FALSE' in my DESCRIPTION file. I see
at http://developer.r-project.org/blosxom.cgi/R-devel/NEWS:
>
> Tue, 25 Jun 2013
> CHANGES IN R-devel UTILITIES
>
>      'R CMD check --as-cran' warns about a false value of the
'DESCRIPTION' field 'BuildVignettes' for Open Source packages,
and ignores it (as an Open Source package needs to have complete sources for its
vignettes).
>
> My questions are:
>
> 1) Is this going to be an issue if I submit a new version of the metafor
package to CRAN right now?
>
> 2) And if the answer to 1 is "Not right now": Is this going to
become an issue in the future? In other words, is it the goal to only allow
packages with BuildVignettes=true if they have an FOSS license at some point in
the future?
>
> Best,
> Wolfgang
>
> --
> Wolfgang Viechtbauer, Ph.D., Statistician
> Department of Psychiatry and Psychology
> School for Mental Health and Neuroscience
> Faculty of Health, Medicine, and Life Sciences
> Maastricht University, P.O. Box 616 (VIJV1)
> 6200 MD Maastricht, The Netherlands
> +31 (43) 388-4170 | http://www.wvbauer.com
>
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