From maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch  Tue Oct 25 10:16:52 2016
From: maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch (Martin Maechler)
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2016 10:16:52 +0200
Subject: [Rd] ACM license link broken
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>>>>> Ben Bolker <bbolker at gmail.com>
>>>>>     on Mon, 24 Oct 2016 19:26:35 -0400 writes:

    > The URL listed under
    > https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/share/licenses/license.db for the ACM
    > license,

    > http://www.acm.org/publications/policies/softwarecrnotice ,

    > gives a 404 error.  I think this should be replaced by

    > https://www.acm.org/publications/policies/software-copyright-notice

    > ?  For what it's worth, the original page did exist as recently as 5
    > April 2016:

    > https://web.archive.org/web/20160405100845/http://www.acm.org/publications/policies/softwarecrnotice/

    > Suggestions for where/to whom to report this?  R-bugzilla?
    > cran at r-project.org?  Here?

Thank you, Ben!

"Here" is perfect for such a small change.
  I have fixed the sources, including those for 'R 3.2.2 RC' (RC
  := Release candidate; release in ca 5 days)
 
(R-bugzilla would have been fine, too.  It's slightly more work
 for you and R core, but in general things there should less
 easily fall between the cracks)

Martin



[Rd] ACM license link broken
Martin Maechler