On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 1:06 PM, Trevor Davis <trevor.l.da...@gmail.com> wrote: >> This is a good solution. Do I need to specify the original License etc? And >> what about a helper function such as stats:::n.knots? This will not appear >> in the manual of my package. Is it sufficient in this case to document the >> authorship in the source (and perhaps a README as you suggested)? > > If the license is the same as your projects you just need the proper > copyright notice. > As Hadley suggests it is a good idea to also document the appropriate > authorship > in the Authors field in the DESCRIPTION as well. > > If the license is different but permissive than then it typically doesn't need > go into DESCRIPTION or a separate LICENSE file but the permissive > license text does usually need to either go > into inst/COPYRIGHT or at the top of the relevant code file: > > > https://www.softwarefreedom.org/resources/2007/gpl-non-gpl-collaboration.html > > https://www.softwarefreedom.org/resources/2012/ManagingCopyrightInformation.html
That may be true for other open source projects, but that is not the interpretation that cran maintainers have used in the past. Hadley -- Chief Scientist, RStudio http://had.co.nz/ ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel