[R] Regarding R licensing usage guidance

Tue Jul 23 22:35:12 CEST 2019

Again, consult an IP lawyer whom you are paying for legal advice.

On Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 4:15 PM Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan using gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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*
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
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