[R] Regarding R licensing usage guidance

[Jeff Newmiller]

Your internet skills are pathetic. Search Google for "proprietary use gpl" and the first hit is

https://opensource.stackexchange.com/questions/7078/is-it-legal-to-use-gpl-code-in-a-proprietary-closed-source-program-by-putting-i

Note that there are (at least) three obvious alternatives if there is any question in your case: release the code under GPL but also sell it with support (a la RStudio); only use it yourself (don't distribute it at all); or only use R for setting up your models but re-engineer implementations of the run-time prediction calculations yourself (often much easier than the initial algorithm development). 

I think your desperation to steal the hard work of the various R contributors seems quite odious.

On July 22, 2019 6:55:31 AM PDT, ANAMIKA KUMARI <anamika1302 using gmail.com> wrote:
>Hello Team,
>
>This mail is in reference to understanding R  license and also usage of
> R
>language to develop commercialised product.
>
>I am working on one product of mine that uses R and python language.I
>am
>trying to understand the licensing issue if any related to R, if I am
>going
>to commercialise my product and keep my work proprietary.
>
>I need your help to understand it. R comes under GNU-GPL-2.0. Now, do I
>need to share source code of my product. if, I am moving planning  to
>move
>it to production or I can keep my code Proprietary.
>
>Please note that I am just using R and its packages to  develop my own
>statistical tool and api and Have not done any changes to existing R
>code.
>
>Please refer below for all R-packages used in my code:-
>
>   1.
>*R-3.4.4 *
>   2. *'spacyr'*
>   3.
>*'jsonlite' *
>   4.
>*'lubridate' *
>   5.
>*'data.table' *
>   6.
>*'png' *
>   7.
>*'maps' *
>   8.
>*'countrycode' *
>   9.
>*'humaniformat' *
>   10.
>*'ngram' *
>   11.
>*'stringr' *
>   12.
>*'slam' *
>   13.
>*'tm' *
>   14.
>*'lsa' *
>   15.
>*'RTextTools' *
>   16.
>*'stringi' *
>   17.
>*'plumber' *
>   18. *"Rook"*
>   19. *"pdftools"*
>   20. *'tokenizers'*
>   21. *'zoo'*
>   22. *"tidyr"*
>   23. *"reqres"*
>   24. *"rJava"*
>   25. *"tiff"*
>   26. *"splitstackshape"*
>   27. *"stringdist"*
>   28. *"RJSONIO"*
>   29. *"ropensci/tabulizer"*
>   30. *"staplr"*
>   31. *"SparseM"*
>   32. *"randomForest"*
>   33. *"e1071"*
>   34. *"ipred"*
>   35. *"caTools"*
>   36. *RCMD INSTALL maxent_1.3.3.1.tar.gz*
>   37. *RCMD INSTALL tree_1.0-39.tar.gz*
>   38. *RCMD INSTALL RTextTools_1.4.2.tar.gz*
>
>
>*Any help from you will be highly appreciated as I am literally stuck
>at a
>dead end.*
>
>*Regards*
>*Anamika Kumari*
>
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>
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