[R-pkg-devel] Extending MIT software

IANAL, but if you are just importing or depending on another package, you
shouldn't need to worry about this. If you
copied their code into your own package, you should probably rethink your
approach.

At my job, several of my coworkers had copy/pasted code from stack
overflow, which carries a CC license. This is
hypothetically a problem if anyone ever tried to buy our code base or
company. To clean it up, I moved all of the functions
 into a separate stackoverflow package which had the correct license and
attribution.




On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 8:48 AM, Charles Determan <cdetermanjr at gmail.com>
wrote:

When developing a new package we want to have a license attributed to that
package.  That said, I am a little confused how one would approach the MIT
license.  I am working on a package that extends upon another library that
has the MIT license.  I know that I need to create a LICENSE file with YEAR
and COPYRIGHT HOLDER.

My question is, would the copyright holder be just the authors for this
given R package or a combination of the R package authors and the original
library authors?

Regards,
Charles

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