Software and datasets to support 'Modern Applied Statistics with S', 
fourth edition, by W. N. Venables and B. D. Ripley.
Springer, 2002.

From the text (pp. 464):

    These datasets and software are provided in good faith, but none of
    the authors, publishers nor distributors warrant their accuracy
    nor can be held responsible for the consequences of their use.

This file is intended to clarify ownership and copyright: where
possible individual files also carry brief copyright notices. 


Copyrights
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All files are copyright W. N. Venables and B. D. Ripley. Those parts
which were distributed with the first edition are also copyright (C)
1994 Springer-Verlag New York Inc, with all rights assigned to
W. N. Venables and B. D. Ripley.


Licence
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    This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
    the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 or 3 of the License
    (at your option).

    This program 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 General Public License for more details.

Files share/licenses/GPL-2 and share/licenses/GPL-3 in the R
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These can also be viewed at https://www.r-project.org/Licenses/

Bill.Venables@gmail.com
ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk