This is the Debian GNU/Linux r-cran-gplots package of caTools, a package with programming tools for plotting data for GNU R. caTools was written and compiled by Jarek Tuszynski . Parts of the code were adopted from earlier work of David Koblas. This package was created by Steffen Moeller following a template of Dirk Eddelbuettel . The sources were downloaded from http://cran.us.r-project.org/src/contrib/ The package was renamed from its upstream name 'caTools' to 'r-cran-catools' to fit the pattern of CRAN (and non-CRAN) packages for R. Copyright (C) 2005 - 2007 Jarek Tuszynski License: GPLv3 On a Debian GNU/Linux system, the GPL license is included in the file /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL. A fraction of the code in GifTools.cpp contained the following message: Encoding Algorithm adapted from code by Christoph Hohmann found at http://members.aol.com/rf21exe/gif.htm. Which was adapted from code by Michael A, Mayer found at http://www.danbbs.dk/%7Edino/whirlgif/gifcode.html Parts of Decoding Algorithm were adapted from code by David Koblas. It had the following notice: "Copyright 1990 - 1994, David Koblas. (koblas@netcom.com) Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in supporting documentation. This software is provided "as is" without express or implied warranty." The file R/zzz.R states Written by Jarek Tuszynski. Copyright 2001-2003 SAIC. Software developed in conjunction with the National Cancer Institute, and distributed under "caBIO Software License" included in "COPYING" file. and albeit that COPYING file is not part of the package, an internet search found the following: The caBIO Software License, Version 1.0 Copyright 2001 SAIC. This software was developed in conjunction with the National Cancer Institute, and so to the extent government employees are co-authors, any rights in such works shall be subject to Title 17 of the United States Code, section 105. Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met: 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the disclaimer of Article 3, below. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 2. The end-user documentation included with the redistribution, if any, must include the following acknowledgment: "This product includes software developed by the SAIC and the National Cancer Institute." If no such end-user documentation is to be included, this acknowledgment shall appear in the software itself, wherever such third-party acknowledgments normally appear. 3. The names "The National Cancer Institute", "NCI" and "SAIC" must not be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software. 4. This license does not authorize the incorporation of this software into any proprietary programs. This license does not authorize the recipient to use any trademarks owned by either NCI or SAIC-Frederick. 5. THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS," AND ANY EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE) ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE, SAIC, OR THEIR AFFILIATES BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. For reference, the upstream DESCRIPTION file is included below: Package: caTools Version: 1.8 Date: Oct 31 2007 Title: Tools: moving window statistics, GIF, Base64, ROC AUC, etc. Author: Jarek Tuszynski Maintainer: Jarek Tuszynski Depends: R (>= 2.2.0), bitops Suggests: MASS, rpart Description: Contains several basic utility functions including: moving (rolling, running) window statistic functions, read/write for GIF and ENVI binary files, fast calculation of AUC, LogitBoost classifier, base64 encoder/decoder, round-off error free sum and cumsum, etc. License: GPL version 2 or later Packaged: Tue Oct 9 10:43:05 2007; tuszynskij