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

[Raphael Bonnet]

Thank you Peter for your response,

It looks ok for the license. The journal's content appears to be under 
this license:
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Raphael

Le 18/09/2019 à 14:11, peter dalgaard a écrit :
> Not a lawyer, but...
>
> I would expect that it depends on what license it was published under originally. If it doesn't explicitly allow the creation of derivative works, then I would be wary.
>
> -pd
>
>> On 18 Sep 2019, at 13:59 , Raphael Bonnet <Raphael.BONNET using univ-cotedazur.fr> wrote:
>>
>> 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
>>
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