Format: http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/ Upstream-Name: R.methodsS3 Upstream-Contact: Henrik Bengtsson Source: http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/R.methodsS3/ Files: * Copyright: 2012-2014 Henrik Bengtsson License: LGPL-2.1+ Comment: The CRAN policy is to encourage package authors to no include the license text "to save space". We as in Debian are aware that this is illegal strictly speaking but it seems we will not solve this issue package wise with every single package author. The better solution would be to form an Debian R team which should discuss this with CRAN maintainers in general. Files: debian/* Copyright: 2014 Andreas Tille License: LGPL-2.1+ License: LGPL-2.1+ On Debian GNU/Linux system you can find the complete text of the LGPL license in '/usr/share/common-licenses/LGPL-2.1'.