>> And if yes how to do it best? What is the standard procedure here? >> Should I include base package authors as contributors in DESCRIPTION??? >> >> Am I allowed to use MIT + file license with that or is it wrong to do so? > > No, you must use the GPL, since the code you copied is licensed under > the GPL. You can choose to use version 2 or 3 (or both). You do not > have permission to re-license R code under a different license.
I think it's slightly murkier than that - MIT is GPL compatible, so you could license the code you've written as MIT, but the package as a whole would need to be GPL-2/3. Hadley -- http://had.co.nz/ ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
