Format: https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/ Upstream-Name: expm Upstream-Contact: Martin Maechler , expm-developers@lists.R-forge.R-project.org Source: https://cran.r-project.org/package=expm Files: * Copyright: 2012-2016 Vincent Goulet, Christophe Dutang, Martin Maechler, David Firth, Marina Shapira, Michael Stadelmann License: GPL-2+ Comment: The CRAN policy is to encourage package authors to no include the license text "to save space". We as in Debian are aware that this is illegal strictly speaking but it seems we will not solve this issue package wise with every single package author. The better solution would be to form an Debian R team which should discuss this with CRAN maintainers in general. Files: debian/* Copyright: 2014-2016 Andreas Tille License: GPL-2+ License: GPL-2+ This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. . This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. . You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA. . On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2'.