Format: https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/ Source: https://bioconductor.org/packages/limma/ Comment: licensing discussed on https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/bioc-devel/2011-May/002620.html LIMMA is LGPL-2+ code, and depends on R (GPL-2) and the GNU C library (LGPL-2.1+). Taken as a whole, its license is effectively GPL-2, plus perhaps some additional BSD-like requirements depending on what it uses from the GNU C library. Files-Excluded: inst/doc/usersguide.pdf Files: * Copyright: 2005-2016 Gordon Smyth License: LGPL-2+ Files: debian/* Copyright: 2011-2014 Charles Plessy 2014-2016 Andreas Tille License: LGPL-2+ License: LGPL-2+ This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. . 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 Library General Public License for more details. . You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA Comment: On Debian systems, a copy of the GNU Library General Public version 2 is available in ‘/usr/share/common-licenses/LGPL-2’.