Incorrect License

Open csgillespie opened this issue 6 months ago • 1 comments

I believe the license is wrong (or maybe just confusing) in the DESCRIPTION file. You have

License: MIT + file LICENSE

However, you have both LICENSE and LICENSE.md. So I think it should be

License: MIT + file LICENSE.md

and delete LICENSE?

Jun 09 '25 19:06 csgillespie

I believe this is because CRAN wants file LICENCE to go with the MIT usage in the DESCRIPTION but prefer people not to bundle the whole licence (as they are distributed with an R installation). LICENCE.md is Rbuildignored but included in the source repository so people see the full licence.

FWIW - I think this is the standard setup from usethis::use_mit_licence() so if confusing it may be worth raising there.

Jun 09 '25 21:06 TimTaylor