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 <jo...@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 Lamarão 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@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 > jo...@reed.edu > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@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. ______________________________________________ R-help@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.
