This is the Debian GNU/Linux r-cran-sm package of sm, a set of functions for kernel smoothing methods for GNU R. Sm was written by Adrian W. Bowman and Adelchi Azzalini, and ported to R by B. D. Ripley. This package was created by Dirk Eddelbuettel . The sources were downloaded from http://cran.us.r-project.org/src/contrib/ The package was renamed from its upstream name 'sm to 'r-cran-sm to highlight the fact that is it a CRAN package for R. Sm is copyright Adrian W. Bowman, Adelchi Azzalini and Brian D. R. Ripley, and released under the GNU General Public License (GPL). On a Debian GNU/Linux system, the GPL license (v2) is included in the file /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2. For reference, the upstream DESCRIPTION file is included below: Package: sm Version: 2.0-9 Date: 2004-01-17 Author: Adrian W. Bowman and Adelchi Azzalini. Ported to R by B. D. Ripley . Maintainer: Brian Ripley Description: This is software linked to the book `Applied Smoothing Techniques for Data Analysis: The Kernel Approach with S-Plus Illustrations' Oxford University Press. Title: kernel smoothing methods: Bowman & Azzalini (1997) License: GPL (version 2) Packaged: Sun Jan 18 08:46:09 2004; ripley The source package also includes the following file License (which, being included here, we do ship as an individual file in the Debian package): Licence agreement ----------------- This software is associated with the book "Applied Smoothing Techniques for Data Analysis: the kernel approach with S-Plus illustrations" by Adrian W. Bowman & Adelchi Azzalini, published by Oxford University Press, 1997. It consists of two parts: the `sm library', and the `scripts'. The sm library is a suite of S-Plus routines. The scripts form a layer of software above the sm library, and provide examples of its applications. The `sm` library is copyright of A.W.Bowman & A.Azzalini (1997, 2000) except for the exceptions below. The function sm.density calls the function sm.density.3d to produce contour plots of three-dimensional density estimates. This function was originally written by Stuart Young and has been amended by Adrian Bowman. The copyright of this function and its subsidiary functions remains with Stuart Young. The copyright of the Fortran code in the file routines.f is also held by Stuart Young. The function sm.sphere was written jointly by Adrian Bowman and Adrian Hines and copyright is held jointly. The scripts are copyright of Oxford University Press (1997). Irrespective of the individual copyrights, this software is usable under the `GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE', a copy of which is distributed together with this software. This essentially means that this software can be freely used and re-distributed, but no warranty of any sort is provided for it.