[Rd] Citation if copying R base code

[Gábor Csárdi]

On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 10:05 AM, Peter Meissner
<retep.meissner at gmail.com> wrote:
> But how might I do that?
>
> Writing GPL in DESCRIPTION and putting my name in every R-file?

Maybe see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.html
It has some example header that you can put in each source file.

Gabor

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> Am 2014-11-06 15:46, schrieb Hadley Wickham:
>>>>
>>>> And if yes how to do it best? What is the standard procedure here?
>>>> Should I include base package authors as contributors in DESCRIPTION???
>>>>
>>>> Am I allowed to use MIT + file license with that or is it wrong to do
>>>> so?
>>>
>>>
>>> No, you must use the GPL, since the code you copied is licensed under
>>> the GPL.  You can choose to use version 2 or 3 (or both).  You do not
>>> have permission to re-license R code under a different license.
>>
>>
>> I think it's slightly murkier than that - MIT is GPL compatible, so
>> you could license the code you've written as MIT, but the package as a
>> whole would need to be GPL-2/3.
>>
>> Hadley
>>
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