[R-pkg-devel] How to refer to COPYRIGHTS and AUTHORS extra files in DESCRIPTION

[Gábor Csárdi]

HI,

here is an example from a package that was accepted relatively recently:
https://github.com/r-lib/presser/blob/master/DESCRIPTION#L8-L11

Gabor

On Tue, Jul 7, 2020 at 6:30 PM git demont <git.demont using gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Sorry for asking again, but I got absolutely no advice on how to
> correctly refer to extra copyrights and authors files in package
> DESCRIPTION.
> I know this can be considered as impolite and I don't want to do so.
> So, I waited one week until sending the present message and I promise I
> will not send another to ask for the same thing after this one.
>
> Best,
> Yohann
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 4:04 PM git demont <git.demont using gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I am developing a package called 'IFC'.
> > https://github.com/gitdemont/IFC/
> > <https://github.com/gitdemont/IFC/tree/v0.0.7>
> >
> > Last submission (v0.0.7) was almost the final one to get it CRAN
> > https://github.com/gitdemont/IFC/tree/v0.0.7
> > It was manually checked and it should be accepted if I removed a dontrun
> > (that I unfortunately forgot).
> >
> > For the next submission ( I hope it will be the good one ), in addition to
> > fixing the dontrun, I would like to include a small modification that was
> > not asked. I would like to avoid another round of submission/review by
> > introducing an issue that was not here. In DESCRIPTION of 'IFC', I am
> > inviting users to refer to files for copyrights and authorship. "See file
> > inst/COPYRIGHTS and file inst/AUTHORS for a list of copyright holders and
> > authors"
> >
> > However, I am not sure whether I should say 'inst/COPYRIGHTS' and
> > 'inst/AUTHORS' because these files are in the 'inst/' directory of the
> > built tar.gz, or if I should only refer to 'COPYRIGHTS' and 'AUTHORS'
> > (without inst/) because once installed these files will be at the root of
> > IFC library directory.
> > The same question olds for "Copyright: file inst/COPYRIGHTS".
> >
> > In CRAN policies, one can read:
> > "Where copyrights are held by an entity other than the package authors,
> > this should preferably be indicated via ‘cph’ roles in the ‘Authors using R’
> > field, or using a ‘Copyright’ field (if necessary referring to an
> > inst/COPYRIGHTS file)."
> > In 'RcppMsgPack' for instance we have:
> > - in the description: "See the files 'COPYRIGHTS' and 'AUTHORS' for a full
> > list of copyright holders and contributors to 'msgpack-c'."
> > - in the copyrights: "inst/COPYRIGHTS".
> >
> > Best,
> > Yohann
> >
>
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