On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 6:13 PM, Jonathan Greenberg <j...@illinois.edu> wrote: > GDALers: > > I'm working with a colleague on a new set of R wrappers for GDAL, and > we are at the point where we are starting to document the functions. > Our R interface is designed to be VERY close to the GDAL command line > utilities (we use the same parameter names, for instance), so I was > wondering if it would be ok to use almost word-for-word the GDAL > documentation of each of the parameters in our package's man files > (this would save us an inordinate amount of time paraphrasing the docs > for all of those functions). If this is ok, how should I cite the > documentation properly?
I can't answer about reuse of the documentation, but citation is probably covered here, http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/FAQGeneral#HowdoIciteGDAL Hopefully someone else will more directly answer your questions (my uninformed opinion is that reuse is probably fine). Best Regards, Eli > > Cheers! Incidentally, the package is up on R-forge: > https://r-forge.r-project.org/projects/gdalutils/ > > --j > > -- > Jonathan A. Greenberg, PhD > Assistant Professor > Global Environmental Analysis and Remote Sensing (GEARS) Laboratory > Department of Geography and Geographic Information Science > University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign > 259 Computing Applications Building, MC-150 > 605 East Springfield Avenue > Champaign, IL 61820-6371 > Phone: 217-300-1924 > http://www.geog.illinois.edu/~jgrn/ > AIM: jgrn307, MSN: jgrn...@hotmail.com, Gchat: jgrn307, Skype: jgrn3007 > _______________________________________________ > gdal-dev mailing list > gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev _______________________________________________ gdal-dev mailing list gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev