This is the Debian GNU/Linux r-cran-stabledist package of stabledist,
a set of function for density, probability and quantile functions, and
random number generation for (skew) stable distributions. It was
factored out of the Rmetrics package fBasics which now depends on
it. Rmetrics is a collection of packages for financial engineering and
computational finance. stabledist was started by Diethelm Wuertz
andwas extended by Martin Maechler who now maintains it.

This package was created by Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>.
The sources were downloaded from the main CRAN site
	http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/
and are also available from all CRAN mirrors as e.g.
	http://cran.us.r-project.org/src/contrib/

The package was renamed from its upstream name 'stabledist' to
'r-cran-stabledist' to fit the pattern of CRAN (and non-CRAN) packages for
R.

Copyright (C) 1999 - 2008 Diethelm Wuertz
Copyright (C) 1999 - 2010 Rmetrics Foundation
Copyright (C) 2011 - 2010 Diethelm Wuertz and Martin Maechler

License: GPL

stabledist is copyright by Diethelm Wuertz, Martin Maechler and
others, and released under the GNU General Public License (GPL)
version 2 or greater.

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: stabledist
   Version: 0.6-0
   Date: 2011-03-12
   Title: Stable Distribution Functions
   Author: Diethelm Wuertz, Martin Maechler and Rmetrics core team
           members.
   Maintainer: Martin Maechler <maechler@stat.math.ethz.ch>
   Depends: R (>= 2.10.1)
   Suggests: fBasics, RUnit
   Description: Density, Probability and Quantile functions, and random
           number generation for (skew) stable distributions, using the
           parametrizations of Nolan.
   LazyLoad: yes
   LazyData: yes
   License: GPL (>= 2)
   URL: http://www.rmetrics.org
   Packaged: 2011-03-14 13:15:38 UTC; maechler
   Repository: CRAN
   Date/Publication: 2011-03-15 16:41:43
         
and the following segment was extracted from the header of
R/dist-stableMode.R [ and yes, that is the old FSF address but I am
quoting here ]

   # This R package 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 R package 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 R package; if not, write to the
   # Free Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston,
   # MA  02111-1307  USA
   
   
   ################################################################################
   # FUNCTIONS:		DESCRIPTION:
   #  stableMode		 Computes the mode of the stable DF
   ################################################################################
   
   ##' Computes the mode of the alpha stable distribution
   ##' @title Mode of the stable distribution
   ##' @param alpha
   ##' @param beta
   ##' @param beta.max for numerical purposes, values of beta too close to 1,
   ##'  are set to beta.max
   ##' @param tol numerical tolerance used in optimize()
   ##' @return a number, the stable mode
   ##' @author Diethelm Wuertz and Martin Maechler