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 <Raphael.BONNET at univ-cotedazur.fr> wrote:
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 the journal in which the code was published and citing the paper and the authors.
Can I associate myself as [cre, trl] in the description file?
Thanks,
Raphael