This is the Debian GNU/Linux r-cran-getopt package of getopt, a package for GNU R that provides commandline parsing functionality useful for R scripting frontends like Rscript and littler. getopt was written by Allen Day. This package was created by Dirk Eddelbuettel . The sources were downloaded from CRAN at http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/ The package was renamed from its upstream name 'getopt' to 'r-cran-getopt' to fit the pattern of CRAN (and non-CRAN) packages for R. Copyright (C) 2008 Allen Day License: GPL On a Debian GNU/Linux system, the GPL license (version 2) is included in the file /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2. For reference, the upstream DESCRIPTION [indented two spaces] file is included below: Package: getopt Type: Package Title: C-like getopt behavior. Version: 1.12 Date: 2008-04-22 Author: Allen Day Maintainer: Allen Day Description: Use this with Rscript to write ``#!'' shebang scripts that accept short and long flags/options. License: GPL Packaged: Tue Apr 22 16:41:54 2008; allenday