Thanks to each of you for your excellent input. I have copied the file and will read it tonight. I haven't run into any heat from IT, but if I do, it will be in the near future. The exact legal issue was touched upon. There was a concern that anything associated with R (my code, etc.) would have to be made public, legally, if demanded. I thought that was absurd. Before I came to this company a few years ago, I interviewed at Amazon.com in Seattle, and in that interview, it was explained to me that their entire computer network, at least as far as I would be concerned, was all Linux. Well, that's open source as well. But of course there could be fine legal differences.
Gnu.org said the same thing, under its FAQ, that there is no legal risk to use it at work, in the sense that you'd have to divulge anything. It even said you could modify source code and use it at work. No problems. But, like was said, there could be a problem if you distribute it. But I'm just a simple user, looking for a much better range of statistical, mathematical, and optimization methods than SAS STAT and SAS ETS offer. For me, I will slowly try to convert my SAS code at work to R script. I've seen the light. Cheers and thanks for the good feedback. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Legality-Question-about-R%27s-Open-Source-GNU-GPL-License-tp18696623p18698452.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ 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.
