This is the Debian GNU/Linux r-cran-class package of class, a package providing functions and datasets for classification written by W. N. Venables and B. D. Ripley. It has already been part of Debian since Dec 1997 as part of the r-base package, and since Jan 2004 as part of the package bundle VR packaged as r-cran-vr. This package was created by Dirk Eddelbuettel . The sources were downloaded from the CRAN network at http://cran.r-project.org The package was renamed from its upstream name 'class' to 'r-cran-class' to fit the pattern of CRAN (and non-CRAN) packages for R. Copyright (C) 1992 - 2009 W. N. Venables and B. D. Ripley Portions Copyright (C) 2005 - 2007 The R Foundation License: GPL-2 | GPL-3 On a Debian GNU/Linux system, the GPL-2 license is included in the file /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2. For reference, the upstream DESCRIPTION file is included below: Package: class Priority: recommended Version: 7.3-1 Date: 2009-06-20 Depends: R (>= 2.5.0), stats, utils Imports: MASS Author: Brian Ripley . Maintainer: Brian Ripley Description: Various functions for classification. Title: Functions for Classification License: GPL-2 | GPL-3 URL: http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/MASS4/ LazyLoad: yes Packaged: 2009-07-31 14:02:08 UTC; ripley The upstream file inst/LICENSE is also included: Software and datasets to support 'Modern Applied Statistics with S', fourth edition, by W. N. Venables and B. D. Ripley. Springer, 2002. From the text (pp. 464): These datasets and software are provided in good faith, but none of the authors, publishers nor distributors warrant their accuracy nor can be held responsible for the consequences of their use. This file is intended to clarify ownership and copyright: where possible individual files also carry brief copyright notices. Copyrights ========== All files are copyright (C) 1994-2009 W. N. Venables and B. D. Ripley. Those parts which were distributed with the first edition are also copyright (C) 1994 Springer-Verlag New York Inc, with all rights assigned to W. N. Venables and B. D. Ripley. Licence ======= This 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 or 3 of the License (at your option). 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. Files share/licenses/GPL-2 and share/licenses/GPL-3 in the R (source or binary) distribution are copies of versions 2 and 3 of the 'GNU General Public License'. These can also be viewed at http://www.r-project.org/licenses/ Bill.Venables@csiro.au ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk