Not the right place. This belongs to r-devel, but first make sure you browse the archives as this is a common discussion these days and this might have been answered already.
Romain Le 8 sept. 2013 à 09:40, Wush Wu <wush...@gmail.com> a écrit : > Hello, > > I am working on the R wrapper of hiredis, which is a C library released under > BSD license. Since the development package of libhiredis is not available on > many OS such as Mac OS X,Solaris and Windows, I need to embed the source code > of hiredis in the package to make it work. > > I submitted my first package to CRAN which contains the source code of > libstrophe(GPL v3). A problem of authorship occurred even if I emphasis the > source is from libstrophe and put the copyright of the libstrophe under the > field COPYRIGHT in the DESCRIPTION file. Finally, the problem is resolved by > putting the author of libstrophe into the author list of the R package. Is it > a suggested way to do so? > > I looked into many DESCRIPTION files of CRAN package which contains 3rd party > C library, but I still cannot understand whether I should merge the author of > the library into the AUTHOR field or I only need to put the reference of 3rd > party library in the COPYRIGHT field. > > More concretely, which of the following action of the embedded source of 3rd > party library occurrs the copyright issue and what is the suggested way to > handle this issue? > > - Sources are provided by the OS, the user should manually download the source > - Sources are embedded in the package but unchanged. The R package links to > the 3rd party library. > - Sources are modified. > - Reproduce the source file into a single file and put it in the `src` > directory. > > I am not sure if here is a right place to discuss this issue. Please let me > know if it is inappropriate. > > Thanks. > > Wush > _______________________________________________ > Rcpp-devel mailing list > Rcpp-devel@lists.r-forge.r-project.org > https://lists.r-forge.r-project.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rcpp-devel _______________________________________________ Rcpp-devel mailing list Rcpp-devel@lists.r-forge.r-project.org https://lists.r-forge.r-project.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rcpp-devel
