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VNNikolaidis / nnlib2Rcpp

An R package for Neural Nets created using nnlib2
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License files #2

Closed schnorr closed 3 years ago

schnorr commented 3 years ago

There are two files with two licenses: LICENSE and LICENSE.md. The former has a copyright notice pointing to the author, the second contains a MIT license which is an OSI approved one. I suggest to the author:

VNNikolaidis commented 3 years ago

Thank you for the comment. The file LICENCE is written as is to be compatible with the CRAN submission rules, while the LICENSE.md is there for GitHub. Of course they both contain the same licensing information, but this has been an known issue (that it is hard to satisfy both in a single file). See for example the discussion in:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/43550479/how-to-satisfy-both-cran-and-github-license-file-naming-requirements

I will look a little more into this issue although my priority is to comply with CRAN (they are quite strict) while also have the files in the GitHub repository as close as possible to those used when creating the final CRAN submission.

VNNikolaidis commented 3 years ago

The format used for LICENSE is the one imposed by CRAN. As far as I am aware, CRAN submission rules imply that only a separate LICENSE.md can be used.