This is the Debian GNU/Linux r-cran-rserve package of rJava, a low-level interface from GNU R to Java written by Simon Urbanek. This package was created by Dirk Eddelbuettel . The sources were downloaded from http://www.rosuda.org/Rserve/ and are also available at every mirror of CRAN: http://cran.r-project.org Copyright (C) 2003 - 2008 Simon Urbanek License: GPL-2 for rJava, LGPL-2.1 for jri On a Debian GNU/Linux system, the GPL-2 and LGPL licenses are included in the files /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2 and /usr/share/common-licenses/LGPL-2.1. For reference, the upstream DESCRIPTION file is included below: Package: rJava Version: 0.6-0 Title: Low-level R to Java interface Author: Simon Urbanek Maintainer: Simon Urbanek Depends: R (>= 2.5.0), methods Description: Low-level interface to Java VM very much like .C/.Call and friends. Allows creation of objects, calling methods and accessing fields. License: GPL version 2 URL: http://www.rforge.net/rJava/ The package also contains the jri interface by Simon Urbanek which has the following header in the README JRI - Java/R Interface ------------------------ Copyright (C) 2006 Simon Urbanek This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; version 2.1 of the License. This library 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 Lesser General Public License for more details (LGPL.txt). [...]