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.dem...@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@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 > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
