From simon.urbanek at r-project.org  Tue Oct  6 14:32:52 2015
From: simon.urbanek at r-project.org (Simon Urbanek)
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2015 08:32:52 -0400
Subject: [Rd] authorship and citation
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On Oct 6, 2015, at 7:58 AM, S Ellison <S.Ellison at LGCGroup.com> wrote:

>> The former co-author contributed, so he is still author and probably copyright
>> holder and has to be listed among the authors, otherwise it would be a CRAN
>> policy violation ...
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> It's a bit of a philosophical question right now, but at some point in a developing package's life - particularly one that starts small but is subsequently refactored in growth - there may be no code left that was contributed by the original developer.
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> Is there a point at which the original developer should not stay on the author list?
> 

CRAN policies only require the presence of copyright holders, so if there is no content left to which the original author has copyright, then s/he doesn't need to be listed. Note that this extends to all the content, not just code.

Cheers,
S


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[Rd] authorship and citation
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