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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
Thank you.

Regards,
Dr. T. Imam

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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(including old editions of mine) and they do go out-of-date very 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.
Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
1 South Parks Road,                     +44 1865 272866 (PA)
Oxford OX1 3TG, UK                Fax:  +44 1865 272595
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