[Rd] Citation if copying R base code

Hadley Wickham h.wickham at gmail.com
Thu Nov 6 16:11:44 CET 2014


> Yes, that's right.  We often enter lines like
>
> Copyright (C) 1997--2014  The R Core Team
>
> into the sources, but I suspect that those don't legally imply a copyright
> transfer, at least where I live.

It's also not clear that R Core Team is a legal entity that can own copyright.

Hadley

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