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

Copyrights
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Files: inst/shapes/baltim.*, inst/shapes/columbus.*, and inst/shapes/sids.* 
are derived by permission from SAL data files
prepared by Luc Anselin; they were downloaded from:

http://geodacenter.asu.edu/sdata

under the following conditions: "The data are provided as is, without 
any warranties. Please make sure to give proper credit when using 
them in any publications. Some of the data sets are purely illustrative 
and should not be used for substantive research."

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Files: data/afcon.rda, data/columbus.rda, data/nc.sids.rda 
are derived by permission from SpaceStat data files
prepared by Luc Anselin; they were downloaded from:

http://www.spacestat.com/data.htm#data

under the following conditions: "All data sets are provided as is,
and no warranties, expressed or implied are made as to the correctness
and fitness for a purpose. Proper citation of the source of the data in
published work would be appreciated."

File: data/eire.rda is derived from data sets made available by Michael
Tiefelsdorf based on sources named in man/eire.Rd, and downloaded from:

http://geog-www.sbs.ohio-state.edu/faculty/tiefelsdorf/GeoStat.htm

File: data/auckland.rda is derived from data sets included with INFOMAP 
in Bailey T, Gatrell A (1995) Interactive Spatial Data Analysis, Harlow: 
Longman, and is used with permission of the authors.

File: data/NY_data.rda  is derived from data sets for Waller, L. and
C. Gotway (2004) Applied Spatial Statistics for Public Health Data,
New York: John Wiley and Sons, and is used with permission of the authors.

Other files in the data directory are derived from sources given on
their help pages.