[R] Course

[R. Michael Weylandt]

Though, for the record, it is perfectly legal and rather common to
charge for _instruction_ in R, just not for R itself.[1] This is done,
inter alia, at the UserR conferences. Similarly, one could charge for
books on R (physical or digital), for code deliverables in R, etc.

Cheers,
Michael

[1] Actually, I believe one could sell a binary, but would have to
supply the source code as well, so it wouldn't be the most lucrative
business plan. See, e.g., http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html

On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 10:33 AM, Albyn Jones <jones at reed.edu> wrote:
> Dear Pedro
>
> in your R session, enter the commands
>
>    license()
>    RShowDoc("COPYING")
>
>    "R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
>     You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions."
>
> Those imply no restriction on charging a fee for presenting courses in R.
>
> albyn
>
> On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 03:42:54PM +0200, Pedro Henrique Lamarão Souza wrote:
>>
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am a student of Materials Engineering and I want to minister an
>> introductory course of R at the university I study here in Brazil. I know R is
>> a free software, but I just want to know if I do need a special authorization
>> for doing it. The course will be totaly free and I also will not receive any
>> money for doing it. The idea is just to show the program.
>>
>> --
>>
>>
>> Atenciosamente,
>> Pedro Lamar??o
>> ITEC/UFPA/PPGEM/GPEMAT
>>
>>       [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
>>
>
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>> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
>
>
> --
> Albyn Jones
> Reed College
> jones at reed.edu
>
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> PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.