Thanks Brian and Hadley, these all seem to be reasonable approaches! (For the current package I think I'll depend on the other one, but it's good to know how to proceed for future situations …).
Felix Am 14.03.2013 um 16:52 schrieb Hadley Wickham <h.wick...@gmail.com>: >> If you wish to fork the original code and include the code directly in >> your package, then your package will also need to be GPL>=3, you will need >> to list the authors of that code as Contributors in your DESCRIPTION file, >> and I would strongly recommend that you place this code in a separate .R >> file in your package, with a separate Copyright and License comment block in >> that separate file stating the origins and license for this code snippet. > > Another option is to email the original author and ask if they'd be > willing to license the code to you under whatever license your package > currently uses. > > Hadley > > -- > Chief Scientist, RStudio > http://had.co.nz/ > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel