Re: [R-pkg-devel] script translation - good practice?

2019-09-18 Thread peter dalgaard
Yes. Check out https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.en.html#GPLCompatibleLicenses and also note that CC-BY is not recommended as a software license (by CC themselves). As there is one-way compatibility, it should be possible to clarify the situation by putting your derivative work under

Re: [R-pkg-devel] script translation - good practice?

2019-09-18 Thread Raphael Bonnet
Thank you Peter for your response, It looks ok for the license. The journal's content appears to be under this license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Raphael Le 18/09/2019 à 14:11, peter dalgaard a écrit : Not a lawyer, but... I would expect that it depends on what license

Re: [R-pkg-devel] script translation - good practice?

2019-09-18 Thread peter dalgaard
Not a lawyer, but... I would expect that it depends on what license it was published under originally. If it doesn't explicitly allow the creation of derivative works, then I would be wary. -pd > On 18 Sep 2019, at 13:59 , Raphael Bonnet > wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > I just rewrote a bit

[R-pkg-devel] script translation - good practice?

2019-09-18 Thread Raphael Bonnet
Hi everyone, I just rewrote a bit of Matlab code into R and that I would like to make it available for the community. Unfortunately this bit of code has been published by authors that I've never contacted. I was wondering if I could submit a package to CRAN by keeping the same license as