From ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de  Sun Sep 15 22:19:02 2013
From: ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de (Uwe Ligges)
Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2013 22:19:02 +0200
Subject: [Rd] FOSS licence with BuildVignettes: false
In-Reply-To: <077E31A57DA26E46AB0D493C9966AC730D87190EAD@UM-MAIL4112.unimaas.nl>
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Message-ID: <52361636.5060305@statistik.tu-dortmund.de>

Setting

BuildVignettes: false

is fine if it is possible to build the vignettes, and the latter is 
checked in CRAN incoming checks (but not the daily checks).

Uwe Ligges








On 15.09.2013 22:13, Viechtbauer Wolfgang (STAT) wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I have been checking the metafor package against R-devel.
>
> R CMD check --as-cran metafor
>
> yields one note:
>
> FOSS licence with BuildVignettes: false
>
> Yes, I have 'BuildVignettes: FALSE' in my DESCRIPTION file. I see at http://developer.r-project.org/blosxom.cgi/R-devel/NEWS:
>
> Tue, 25 Jun 2013
> CHANGES IN R-devel UTILITIES
>
>      'R CMD check --as-cran' warns about a false value of the 'DESCRIPTION' field 'BuildVignettes' for Open Source packages, and ignores it (as an Open Source package needs to have complete sources for its vignettes).
>
> My questions are:
>
> 1) Is this going to be an issue if I submit a new version of the metafor package to CRAN right now?
>
> 2) And if the answer to 1 is "Not right now": Is this going to become an issue in the future? In other words, is it the goal to only allow packages with BuildVignettes=true if they have an FOSS license at some point in the future?
>
> Best,
> Wolfgang
>
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[Rd] FOSS licence with BuildVignettes: false
Uwe Ligges