On Oct 3, 2012, at 9:56 AM, Spencer Graves <spencer.gra...@structuremonitoring.com> wrote:
> On 10/3/2012 7:26 AM, Marc Schwartz wrote: >> On Oct 3, 2012, at 4:49 AM, Narendra <pratap.naren...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I have developed one application using ggmap package.It is based on google >>> map. >>> I am a bit confused regarding its licensing terms.I want to know that can i >>> use it with my other applications. >>> Is it legal? >> >> >> In the case of a third party CRAN package, you are better off contacting the >> package maintainers directly. >> >> With the caveat that I am not a lawyer, ggmap appears to be distributed >> under the MIT license, which is more liberal than say the GPL. There is some >> information here regarding the MIT license: >> >> http://opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php >> >> which may be helpful. >> >> Depending upon what you may be planning to do with your applications (eg. >> integrate ggmap and sell your software) you should definitely contact a >> lawyer with specific expertise in open source software licenses before >> proceeding. If you simply plan to use ggmap and your software, without >> subsequent distribution, then even the GPL would allow you to do that >> without restrictions. >> >> Most critical issues vis-a-vis open source licenses come into play when you >> cross the line from simply being a user/developer to copying and >> distributing. In the latter case, whether you plan to charge for the >> resultant product or make it available for free, is irrelevant. > > > free distribution vs. charging for the product is irrelevant? > > > Some licenses explicitly allow free distribution but not commercial. ... > ??? To the best of my knowledge Spencer, none of the OSI/FSF certified "open source" licenses allow for the restriction of use to non-commercial or non-profit applications. For example, see points 1, 5 and 6 on: http://opensource.org/docs/osd Marc ______________________________________________ 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.
