Course
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 Lamar?o 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
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