Hello,
at first I would like to inform you that I plan to package R CRAN Vcd for
the Debian GNU Linux distribution. The final target is the R CRAN
Surveillance
package which is a nice enhancement for the epidemiology task of Debian
Med [1].
I actually prepared a package which worked so far but there is one issue
which
is not accepted by ftpmaster: We have to provide the source for all binary
chunks of data - and PDF documents belong into this category. As you can
see below the source for hcl-colors.pdf is lacking from the source tarball
which I downloaded [2]. Some searching revealed a document at R-forge
which
seems to be the source of this document.
I would like to ask you what strategy you would consider reasonable to
proceed
now:
1. Remove hcl-colors.pdf completely from vcd tarball because it becomes
outdated compared to the version in Colorspace. I could link inside
the Debian package to the document inside Colorspace because it
depends
from it anyway so no information is lost.
In this case I wonder whether you want to remove the PDF from upstream
tarball yourself.
2. Add the source (in the old revision) to the Vcs tarball because it is
perfectly applicable for this package for Vcs.
Once we are talking about sources I would like to ask explicitely for the
license: I downloaded the package as GPLv2. Does this license also apply
to the documentation files?
Kind regards and thanks for providing R Vcd
Andreas.
[1] http://debian-med.alioth.debian.org/tasks/epi.html
[2] http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/vcd_1.2-2.tar.gz
[3]
https://r-forge.r-project.org/plugins/scmsvn/viewcvs.php/*checkout*/pkg/inst/doc/hcl-colors.Rnw?rev=42&root=colorspace