On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 10:05 AM, Peter Meissner <retep.meiss...@gmail.com> wrote: > But how might I do that? > > Writing GPL in DESCRIPTION and putting my name in every R-file?
Maybe see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.html It has some example header that you can put in each source file. Gabor > > > > Am 2014-11-06 15:46, schrieb Hadley Wickham: >>>> >>>> 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 >> > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
