licenses {usethis}R Documentation

License a package

Description

Adds the necessary infrastructure to declare your package as licensed with one of these popular open source licenses:

See https://choosealicense.com for more details and other options.

Usage

use_mit_license(name = find_name())

use_gpl3_license(name = find_name())

use_agpl3_license(name = find_name())

use_lgpl_license(name = find_name())

use_apl2_license(name = find_name())

use_cc0_license(name = find_name())

use_ccby_license(name = find_name())

Arguments

name

Name of the copyright holder or holders. Separate multiple individuals with ;. You can supply a global default with options(usethis.full_name = "My name").

Details

CRAN does not allow you to include copies of standard licenses in your package, so these functions save the license as LICENSE.md and add it to .Rbuildignore.

See Also

The license section of R Packages.


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