This is the Debian package of the GNU R package known as "gam". The upstream author is Trevor Hastie This package was created by Chris Lawrence , based on Dirk Eddelbuettel's packaging of r-cran-car. The sources were downloaded from http://www.cran.mirrors.pair.com/src/contrib/ The package was renamed from its upstream name 'gam' to 'r-cran-gam' to fit the pattern of CRAN (and non-CRAN) packages for R. Copyright (C) 2010-11 Trevor Hastie. It has been placed under the GNU General Public License, version 2. On Debian systems, the GPL is included in the file /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2. The upstream DESCRIPTION file for this package is available in /usr/lib/R/site-library/gam/ loessc.c and loessf.f are distributed under the following license: * Copyright (c) 1989, 1992 by AT&T. * Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any * purpose without fee is hereby granted, provided that this entire notice * is included in all copies of any software which is or includes a copy * or modification of this software and in all copies of the supporting * documentation for such software. * THIS SOFTWARE IS BEING PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED * WARRANTY. IN PARTICULAR, NEITHER THE AUTHORS NOR AT&T MAKE ANY * REPRESENTATION OR WARRANTY OF ANY KIND CONCERNING THE MERCHANTABILITY * OF THIS SOFTWARE OR ITS FITNESS FOR ANY PARTICULAR PURPOSE. The upstream source also includes a number of Ratfor programs, written by Trevor Hastie and Robert Tibshirani, translated into plain Fortran code. The original Ratfor programs, along with translations into Fortran, can be found as a shell archive, available at: http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/general/gamfit Specifically, the following Fortran translations are included in this package, named as follows: Ratfor Fortran (gamfit) Fortran (r-cran-gam) bakfit.r bakfit.f backfit.f qsbart.r qsbart.r qsbart.f sgram.r sgram.f sgram.f sinerp.r sinerp.f sinerp.f splsm.r splsm.f splsm.f sslvrg.r sslvrg.f sslvrg.f stxwx.r stxwx.f stxwx.f Also, sbart.c is translated from sbart.f (and thus sbart.r) from Gamfit. According to the authors, "This software is in the public domain."