Hadley, With all due respect, I'm not sure what exactly your deliniation between author and contributor is, but from what I can tell I don't agree with it.
>From the blogpost regarding your new purrr package: "Purrr wouldn’t be possible without Lionel Henry <https://github.com/lionel->. He wrote a lot of the package and his insightful comments ..." And yet he is listed as a contributor in the DESCRIPTION file, and thus in your view not worthy of being in the citation even as a non-first author? That does not jive with what I understand to be "standard practice" with regard to software-related publications, and it certainly isn't what I would choose to do in that situation. Best, ~G On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 4:59 AM, Hadley Wickham <h.wick...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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/ > -- Gabriel Becker, PhD Computational Biologist Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Genentech, Inc. [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
