pharmaverse / sdtm.oak

An EDC and Data Standard agnostic SDTM data transformation engine that automates the transformation of raw clinical data in ODM format to SDTM based on standard mapping algorithms
https://pharmaverse.github.io/sdtm.oak/
Apache License 2.0
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Copyright holders are missing from the License file #88

Closed ramiromagno closed 2 weeks ago

ramiromagno commented 1 month ago

We forgot to update the Apache License with the copyright holders (at the end of the file):

https://github.com/pharmaverse/sdtm.oak/blob/453926bc5699dc6c8251b02a3869ddf3767ab5aa/LICENSE.md?plain=1#L182

This is important to do as without this clarification the copyright of the code is very fragmented and the authorship of each function / line of code / file rests with the developer who wrote it.

Reading CRAN Extensions on licensing, we can see that we should avoid something like "Name-of-package authors".

Also, the authors should be indicated in decreasing order of contribution. Given the current state of contributions to the package I'd like to suggest: