This is the Debian GNU/Linux r-cran-mass package of MASS, a package
providing functions and datasets supporting the Venables and Ripley
book 'Modern Applied Statistic with S' (4th ed.) 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 <edd@debian.org>.
The sources were downloaded from the CRAN network at
	http://cran.r-project.org

The package was renamed from its upstream name 'MASS' to 'r-cran-mass'
to fit the pattern of CRAN (and non-CRAN) packages for R.

Copyright (C) 1994 - 2009 W. N. Venables and B. D. Ripley
Portions Copyright (C) 1999 - 2002 R Core Development Team
Portions Copyright (C) 2005 - 2007 The R Foundation
Portions Copyright (C) 1998 - 2007 B. D. Ripley
Portions Copyright (C) 1996        D. M. Bates and W. N. Venables.

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: MASS
  Priority: recommended
  Version: 7.3-2
  Date: 2009-08-27
  Depends: R (>= 2.10.0), grDevices, graphics, stats, utils
  Suggests: lattice, nlme, survival
  Author: S original by Venables & Ripley.
    R port by Brian Ripley <ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk>, following earlier
    work by Kurt Hornik and Albrecht Gebhardt.
  Maintainer: Brian Ripley <ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk>
  Description: Functions and datasets to support Venables and
    Ripley, 'Modern Applied Statistics with S' (4th edition).
  Title: Main Package of Venables and Ripley's MASS
  License: GPL-2 | GPL-3
  URL: http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/MASS4/
  LazyLoad: yes
  LazyData: yes
  Packaged: 2009-08-27 07:14:05 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
  ==========
  
  File MASS/R/profiles.R copyright (C) 1996 D. M. Bates and W. N. Venables.
                         port to R by B. D. Ripley copyright (C) 1998
                         corrections copyright (C) 2000,3,6 B. D. Ripley
  
  Our understanding is that the dataset files MASS/data/*.rda are not copyright.
  
  All other 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