On 4 February 2020 at 15:04, GD wrote: | I have a very specific question regarding the licensing of my R package. | | Here is the details: I have an R package under the MIT license so the | DESCRIPTION file contains the field `License: MIT + file LICENSE` and | the LICENSE file contains the following required fields: | | ``` | YEAR: yyyy | COPYRIGHT HOLDER: xx | ``` | | My problem is that my package includes a third party C++ library also | under MIT license but with different copyright holder and year | information (available in its own LICENSE file shipped with the library).
So maybe add a file COPYRIGHTS ? | How can I edit the LICENSE file of my package to have both copyright | information? Am I supposed to merge them without specifying that I | developed one package and only included another lib? | | For instance, the package RcppEigen (which has a similar structure with | an included third party C++ lib) specifies the different copyrights in | the LICENSE file (but the license is different and not MIT, thus the | requirement regarding the LICENSE file is not the same). Did you read what it says? First two lines are Please see the included file COPYRIGHTS for per-file (or per-directory) details on licenses as well as copyrights. and that file is included as it comes from inst/COPYRIGHTS. Dirk -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
