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@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ Description: This package is a R wrapper of xgboost, which is short for eXtreme
   more than 10 times faster than existing gradient boosting packages such as gbm.
   It supports various objective functions, including regression, classification and ranking.
   The package is made to be extendible, so that user are also allowed to define there own objectives easily.  
-License: Apache License (== 2.0) | file LICENSE
+License: Apache License (== 2.0) + file LICENSE
 URL: https://github.com/tqchen/xgboost
 BugReports: https://github.com/tqchen/xgboost/issues
 Depends: