Hi,
Thank you very much for your replies.
Regards,
Dr. T. Imam


On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 10:24 PM, Prof Brian Ripley
<ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk>wrote:

> On 23/06/2013 12:59, Uwe Ligges wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On 23.06.2013 01:50, Dr. T. Imam wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I am new to this forum, and hopefully am sending the post to the right
>>> avenue (and in the appropriate format).
>>>
>>> I am planning to prepare a (to be commercially sold) book in near future,
>>> in which I expect to use some screenshots from R (running on Windows),
>>> and
>>> also graphic outputs from some of the packages..
>>>
>>> I am just wondering are there any legal requirements (in respect to
>>> copyright/permission of use issue) involved for such commercial use?.
>>>
>>
>>
>> We do not give legal advice.
>>
>> Nevertheless, R is licensed under the GPL 2 or GPL 3. You have to look
>> up the license situations for the used packages yourself.
>> Both, the authors of R and the package would probably appreciate if you
>> cite the software you used. See ?citation in R.
>>
>> Best,
>> Uwe Ligges
>>
>
> Correct.
>
> But one other comment.  There are books containing screenshots (including
> old editions of mine) and they do go out-of-date very quickly: they will
> also baffle users of other OSes (possibly including other versions of
> Windows: screenshots from Windows XP look odd to those who have never used
> it).   I would recommend confining them to online supplementary material.
>
>
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