From wolfgang.viechtbauer at maastrichtuniversity.nl  Sun Sep 15 22:13:15 2013
From: wolfgang.viechtbauer at maastrichtuniversity.nl (Viechtbauer Wolfgang (STAT))
Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2013 22:13:15 +0200
Subject: [Rd] FOSS licence with BuildVignettes: false
Message-ID: <077E31A57DA26E46AB0D493C9966AC730D87190EAD@UM-MAIL4112.unimaas.nl>

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
Viechtbauer Wolfgang (STAT