From h.wickham at gmail.com  Thu Nov  6 16:11:44 2014
From: h.wickham at gmail.com (Hadley Wickham)
Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2014 09:11:44 -0600
Subject: [Rd] Citation if copying R base code
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> Yes, that's right.  We often enter lines like
>
> Copyright (C) 1997--2014  The R Core Team
>
> into the sources, but I suspect that those don't legally imply a copyright
> transfer, at least where I live.

It's also not clear that R Core Team is a legal entity that can own copyright.

Hadley

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[Rd] Citation if copying R base code
Hadley Wickham