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.bon...@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 > > ______________________________________________ > R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel -- Peter Dalgaard, Professor, Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark Phone: (+45)38153501 Office: A 4.23 Email: pd....@cbs.dk Priv: pda...@gmail.com ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
