[R-pkg-devel] script translation - good practice?

[Raphael Bonnet]

Hi everyone,

I just rewrote a bit of Matlab code into R and that I would like to make 
it available for the community.
Unfortunately this bit of code has been published by authors that I've 
never contacted.

I was wondering if I could submit a package to CRAN by keeping the same 
license as the journal in which the code was published and citing the 
paper and the authors.
Can I associate myself as [cre, trl] in the description file?

Thanks,
Raphael