Attribution

License and attribution information

License for RDS Analyst

This software is distributed under the GPL-3 license. It is free, open source, and has the following attribution requirements (GPL Section 7):

  1. you agree to retain in RDS Analyst and any modifications to RDS Analyst the copyright, author attribution and URL information as provided at [https://hpmrg.org/attribution](https://hpmrg.org/attribution).
  2. you agree that RDS Analyst and any modifications to RDS Analyst will, when used, display the attribution:

    Based on ‘RDS Analyst’ project software ( https://hpmrg.org). For license and citation information see https://hpmrg.org/attribution

What does this mean?

If you are modifying RDS Analyst or adopting any source code from RDS Analyst for use in another application, you must ensure that the copyright and attributions mentioned in the license above appear in the code of your modified version or application. These attributions must also appear when the package is loaded (e.g., via "library" or "require").

In addition, if you are using the RDS Analyst package or any of the component packages for research that will be published, we request that you acknowledge this with a https://hpmrg.org/citation. See https://hpmrg.org/citation.html.

License Information for the component packages (e.g., RDS or sspse)

The licenses for these packages are similar to RDS Analyst.

They can be found in the RDS Analyst package using the citation function, e.g.:
citation(‘sspse’)

To cite the individual R packages (e.g., RDS or DeducerRDSAnalyst) please use the information given by their individual citation function calls. For example, at the R Console window type:

citation(package="RDS")

Citing Deducer

RDS Analyst is built on the graphical user interface and capabilities of Deducer. To cite Deducer, see here.