[Rcpp-devel] Copyright Issue of using 3rd party C/C++ library in R package

[Romain Francois]

Not the right place. This belongs to r-devel, but first make sure you browse the archives as this is a common discussion these days and this might have been answered already. 

Romain

Le 8 sept. 2013 à 09:40, Wush Wu <wush978 at gmail.com> a écrit :

> Hello,
> 
> I am working on the R wrapper of hiredis, which is a C library released under BSD license. Since the development package of libhiredis is not available on many OS such as Mac OS X,Solaris and Windows, I need to embed the source code of hiredis in the package to make it work. 
> 
> I submitted my first package to CRAN which contains the source code of libstrophe(GPL v3). A problem of authorship occurred even if I emphasis the source is from libstrophe and put the copyright of the libstrophe under the field COPYRIGHT in the DESCRIPTION file. Finally, the problem is resolved by putting the author of libstrophe into the author list of the R package. Is it a suggested way to do so? 
> 
> I looked into many DESCRIPTION files of CRAN package which contains 3rd party C library, but I still cannot understand whether I should merge the author of the library into the AUTHOR field or I only need to put the reference of 3rd party library in the COPYRIGHT field.
> 
> More concretely, which of the following action of the embedded source of 3rd party library occurrs the copyright issue and what is the suggested way to handle this issue?
> 
> - Sources are provided by the OS, the user should manually download the source
> - Sources are embedded in the package but unchanged. The R package links to the 3rd party library.
> - Sources are modified.
> - Reproduce the source file into a single file and put it in the `src` directory.
> 
> I am not sure if here is a right place to discuss this issue. Please let me know if it is inappropriate.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Wush
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