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Map filenames to MIME types
https://cran.rstudio.com/package=mime
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Please add a separate license file #7

Closed QuLogic closed 5 years ago

QuLogic commented 7 years ago

It is useful to have a separate LICENSE file that contains the text of the license (GPLv2 in this case). This is a) one of the recommended steps by the FSF, b) useful for packagers (outside of CRAN, obviously) and c) parseable by GitHub to appear in its metadata/search.

yihui commented 7 years ago

I understand all these advantages, but I'm at the mercy of CRAN maintainers as a package developer, and I have to follow the strange rule that I cannot include a verbatim copy of the GPL license in the source package but simply indicate the license in DESCRIPTION, otherwise R CMD check will show a NOTE:

* checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... NOTE
License components with restrictions not permitted:
  GPL + file LICENSE

Please feel free to make suggestions to CRAN to allow package authors include an actual LICENSE file in packages.

BTW, @jimhester has been working on c) (parsing an R package's DESCRIPTION). I'm not sure about the progress.