[gdal-dev] Using/citing GDAL documentation

[Eli Adam]

On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 6:13 PM, Jonathan Greenberg <jgrn at illinois.edu> wrote:
> GDALers:
>
> I'm working with a colleague on a new set of R wrappers for GDAL, and
> we are at the point where we are starting to document the functions.
> Our R interface is designed to be VERY close to the GDAL command line
> utilities (we use the same parameter names, for instance), so I was
> wondering if it would be ok to use almost word-for-word the GDAL
> documentation of each of the parameters in our package's man files
> (this would save us an inordinate amount of time paraphrasing the docs
> for all of those functions).  If this is ok, how should I cite the
> documentation properly?

I can't answer about reuse of the documentation, but citation is
probably covered here,
http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/FAQGeneral#HowdoIciteGDAL

Hopefully someone else will more directly answer your questions (my
uninformed opinion is that reuse is probably fine).

Best Regards, Eli

>
> Cheers!  Incidentally, the package is up on R-forge:
> https://r-forge.r-project.org/projects/gdalutils/
>
> --j
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