[R] Regarding R licensing usage guidance

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 23/07/2019 2:38 p.m., ANAMIKA KUMARI wrote:
> Hi Team
> 
> Thank you for your reply. I do not intend to use hard work of community and
> earn profit on it. I do not intend to do  any changes or modifications in
> existing R source code and build software over it. I am just using R as
> language to develop my own work, the same way people use Java or python.
> 
> I just got confused with the licensing , as I thought i can't even use R as
> a language to write code. But that's not the case right? The problem arises
> only if I try to do modification in existing source code and then try to
> convert it into proprietary.

No, that's not right.  The problem comes if you try to distribute copies 
of R or R packages.  You can write things in R and distribute your own 
code any way you like, but you have to be really careful how your users 
get R in order to run your code.  The only rights you have to distribute 
copies of R and other packages come from their licenses.  If you don't 
follow their licenses, you may be in violation of their copyright.

Duncan Murdoch

> 
> I am sorry , it all came out in wrong way.I didn't intended to hurt anyones
> sentiment.
> 
> I totally love the community and it's work so far. And hope someday , I'll
> be have enough knowledge, so that I can  give back to community.
> 
> Regards
> Anamika
> 
> On Mon, Jul 22, 2019, 7:25 PM 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*
>>
>>
>>
> 
> 	[[alternative HTML version deleted]]
> 
> ______________________________________________
> R-help using r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see
> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
> PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
>