On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 4:58 PM, Adrian Dușa <dusa.adr...@unibuc.ro> wrote: > Hi Gabriel, > > On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 10:59 PM, Gabriel Becker <gmbec...@ucdavis.edu> > wrote: > >> [...] >> >> At the very least, this is seems to be a flagrant violation of the >> *spirit* of the CRAN policy, which AFAIK is intended to enforce >> acknowledgement of the contributions of all copyright holders in the >> package. The fact that you are trying to bypass the policy by suggesting >> users use an unofficial citation which would not comply with the policy >> while maintaining an official one which complies, but which you don't want >> users to see is probably a suggestion that you shouldn't do that. >> > > > But that is the very point: I read the CRAN policies twice, and there is no > official guideline on how to compile the citation. > Regarding the Source packages, the policies mention: > > ###### > The ownership of copyright and intellectual property rights of all > components of the package must be clear and unambiguous (including from the > authors specification in the DESCRIPTION file). Where code is copied (or > derived) from the work of others (including from R itself), care must be > taken that any copyright/license statements are preserved and authorship is > not misrepresented. > Preferably, an ‘Authors@R’ would be used with ‘ctb’ roles for the authors > of such code. Alternatively, the ‘Author’ field should list these authors > as contributors. > > 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). > > Trademarks must be respected. > ###### > > Now, that requirement is already met: the former author is still in the > authors' list. So the contribution of the former author is duly > acknowledged, but the fundamental issue of my question related to the > citation file, for which the CRAN policies doesn't offer any other > information. > > If the spirit of the CRAN policies is to enforce citing each and every one > of the authors, then I don't understand why the citation from package Rcmdr > meets this spirit, while my suggestion doesn't.
I'd recommend that you read https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/shiny/DESCRIPTION and compare it to citation("shiny"). Authors, but not contributors, all listed in the citation. Hadley -- http://had.co.nz/ ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
