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5 messages · Pedro Henrique Lamarão Souza, Albyn Jones, Jeff Newmiller +2 more
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 [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
______________________________________________ R-help at r-project.org mailing list 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.
Albyn Jones Reed College jones at reed.edu
I am not a lawyer, and you should not ask for such advice on the Web. However, if you read the GNU license, it does not mention such activities. Money is not traditionally the issue with free software... the obligation to pass the source along if you change it is. I have personally taken a course my work paid for, and I have purchased CDROMs of Linux distributions before.
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"Pedro Henrique Lamar?o Souza" <pedrolamarao at ufpa.br> 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 [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
______________________________________________ R-help at r-project.org mailing list 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.
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
[[alternative HTML version deleted]]
______________________________________________ R-help at r-project.org mailing list 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.
-- Albyn Jones Reed College jones at reed.edu
______________________________________________ R-help at r-project.org mailing list 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.
On 28/08/2012 9:42 AM, 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.
R's license imposes no restrictions on how you use it. There are some restrictions imposed on how you distribute it, but giving copies to students would be allowed. There are a few R packages with more restrictive licenses, but most are as free as R is. Duncan Murdoch