В Fri, 12 Jul 2024 20:17:22 +0000 DRC via R-package-devel <r-package-devel@r-project.org> пишет:
> > Has copyright holders of included software in a [ctb] role only > > I think I'm being asked to add the cph role to essentially every > author in addition to [ctb] That's how I'm reading it too. > but that doesn't seem to be what the CRAN policy wants I agree that there does seem to be a conflict, with the policy only asking to use 'cph' for non-'aut' or 'ctb' copyright holders. > and I still don't know how to decide who gets both. Technically, the conflict can be resolved by noting that the CRAN policy doesn't _prohibit_ using 'cph' for 'aut' or 'ctb' co-authors. Since both your reviewer and help(person) ask for 'cph' for all copyright holders, it sounds like all co-authors who wrote any code should get an additional 'cph'. It would help if CRAN Policy also said that 'cph' should be used for all copyright holders. > Right now there are several people who have explicit copyright over > certain code so I would think just add cph to all those authors? Or > just give everyone cph who isn't a minor contributor? It shouldn't be too wrong to say that if someone wrote a nontrivial line of code you're including in your package, they are a copyright holder. This is an important cornerstone of "bazaar-style" development of free software: if many entities own copyright to parts of a computer program, no single entity has the right to re-license the whole under a non-free license. Contrast this with "cathedral-style" development where every contribution is either accompanied by a copyright transfer document or rewritten from scratch (e.g. SQLite): this lets the single owner re-license the code under whatever terms they prefer. Having said that, if you would like to follow the recommendations of Simon and Tomas and package some of the third-party code for MXE and macOS recipes, don't hesitate to ask. -- Best regards, Ivan ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
