How to confirm original authors in R pkg DESCRIPTION file

Question

I am improving the package (intReg), which is largely based on Venables and Ripley code in polr (MASS library). Is there a standard good way to recognize authors of the source code (large chunks of which are still in my code)?

I currently have:

Posted by Ott Toomet [aut, cre] using code in MASS by WN Venables and BD Ripley

but is there a more standard wording?

As a side note: I don't think there are any copyright issues, since both packages are GPL> = 2.

Answer 1

CRAN, apparently, is less rigid with this problem now, when they were, say, a year or two ago.

, , , Hornik, Murdoch Zeileis R.

Description:, Author:, , - .

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