This is the Debian GNU/Linux r-cran-hdf5 package of hdf5, an interface to the NCSA HDF5 library. This package was created by Rafael Laboissiere , and is now maintained by Dirk Eddelbuettel . The sources were downloaded from http://cran.us.r-project.org/src/contrib/ The package was renamed from its upstream name 'hdf5' to 'r-cran-hdf5' to fit the pattern of CRAN (and non-CRAN) packages for R. Copyright (C) 1998 - 2008 Marcus G. Daniels License: GPL (v2 or later) On a Debian GNU/Linux system, the GPL license is included in the file /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL. For reference, the upstream DESCRIPTION file is included below: Package: hdf5 Version: 1.6.0 Title: HDF5 Author: Marcus G. Daniels mgd@santafe.edu Maintainer: Marcus G. Daniels Description: Interface to the NCSA HDF5 library License: GPL Version 2 or later.