[R] License Question

[Barry Rowlingson]

2008/10/27 Freiberger, Katrin <Katrin.Freiberger at adbag.de>:
> Dear All,
>
> I learned about R during my studies at Cologne University of Applied Science. Now I work at Allianz Dresdner Bauspar AG and I would like to install R here too. Is there any license issues that need to be taken in consideration, any fees to pay by the company? I know there are answers to this in the FAQs but I didn't really understand the legal language. Could you therefore just give me concrete answers?
>

  When you use R, there is no license agreement in place at all. You
have not, and do not have to, agree to anything in order to use R. You
are free to use it in any way.

 When people say 'R is licensed under the GPL', that is purely
applicable to copying and distribution of the R software.

 Other software licenses do cover usage, and forbid you from modifying
or inspecting the program in certain ways. These are usually the
licenses you have to click-through to run the program, since this is
supposed to indicate that you have read and agreed to the license.
There is no click-through license when you start R, because you don't
have to agree with the GPL just to use R.

 Hope that helps,

Barry