[R-pkg-devel] Fwd: [R] a question of etiquette

[Uwe Ligges]

If you copy code, you have to make sure that you can use it under the 
currrent license of your package, and you have to make sure to declare 
copright holders and authors. As the code is part of the package now, 
therese are of course now also copyright holders and authors of your 
package.

Best,
Uwe Ligges

On 01.06.2020 23:37, R. Mark Sharp wrote:
> Adelchi,
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> I have a similar situation where I had made all of the typical academic references within the code and documentation for a small but important function my package uses. I was asked by the CRAN reviewers to add the author of that function to the DESCRIPTION Authors using R section. I added the following:
> person("Terry", "Therneau", role = c("aut”))
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> Mark
> R. Mark Sharp, Ph.D.
> Data Scientist and Biomedical Statistical Consultant
> 7526 Meadow Green St.
> San Antonio, TX 78251
> mobile: 210-218-2868
> rmsharp using me.com
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>> Begin forwarded message:
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>> From: Adelchi Azzalini <azzalini using stat.unipd.it>
>> Subject: [R] a question of etiquette
>> Date: June 1, 2020 at 11:34:00 AM CDT
>> To: r-help using r-project.org
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>> The new version of a package which I maintain will include a new function which I have ported to R from Matlab.
>> The documentation of this R function indicates the authors of the original Matlab code, reference to their paper, URL of the source code.
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>> Question: is this adequate, or should I include them as co-authors of the package, or as contributors, or what else?
>> Is there a general policy about this matter?
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>> Adelchi Azzalini
>> http://azzalini.stat.unipd.it/
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