Don't try to fit a round peg into a square hole. Ask your IT team how to handle open source software. Either they have a solution or they don't ... but R does not have a vendor and this is a real issue for forms like this... you can't ask random people on the Internet (us mailing list subscribers) to pretend we are a vendor and expect any kind of service or responsibility. We help when we can, and ignore you when we can't.
R is offered without warranty under the GNU General Public License version 2, for which the preamble asserts "Also, for each author's protection and ours, we want to make certain that everyone understands that there is no warranty for this free software.". <https://www.r-project.org/Licenses/GPL-2> Agree to the copying terms and use it... or don't agree and don't use it. Just a warning... if you are also looking into POSIT's RDtudio... it is also open source but they may offer you 'vendor' terms for that software... but that is different than R (it depends on R) so don't let yourself get confused. On July 10, 2026 1:07:07 PM PDT, "Shoshin, Leonid via R-help" <[email protected]> wrote: >Hello, > >Martin Maechler kindly recommended I direct my employer's inquiry about R >software to this address. I do realize the form says 'vendor', but it's a >standard form that doesn't distinguish between commercial and open-source >teams. I would appreciate your help with this: > >https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=esFuUS-5i0OFlOEbb2vseSGHPdL5pGFMpevHU2RdP4hURTJYRDJVRVJURFVVM0lHRUg2RTZaUzgyUi4u&r1d4f93493dd34f3ab44a8371cd027827=the%20R%20Foundation&rdd7bb4971fd6412392a1759afcda9ef9=R&r116944486a6e40359eb2ee3bd11d4b69=RITM0679128 > >Best Regards, > > >Leonid Shoshin >Sr Chemist >Mobile: 385-272-2527 >Teams: 801-732-2466 >Westinghouse Electric Co. > > > >-----Original Message----- >From: R-foundation <[email protected]> On Behalf Of >[email protected] >Sent: Friday, July 10, 2026 12:56 PM >To: Shoshin, Leonid <[email protected]> >Subject: Request to mailing list R-foundation rejected > >CAUTION EXTERNAL EMAIL: DO NOT CLICK ON LINKS OR OPEN ATTACHMENTS UNLESS YOU >KNOW THE CONTENT IS SAFE. > >Your request to the R-foundation mailing list > > Posting of your message titled "R questions" > >has been rejected by the list moderator. The moderator gave the following >reason for rejecting your request: > >"Dear Leonid, R is a free open source software -- produced almost exclusively >by academic volunteers, typically University professors. >We do not have paid staff ... Rather there are mailing lists, where you can >ask questions and where (again) volunteers will help by answering. Please do >try the R-help list, see >https://www.r-project.org/mail.html > >Regards, Martin Maechler" > >Any questions or comments should be directed to the list administrator >at: > > [email protected] > > > >________________________________ > >This e-mail may contain proprietary information of the sending organization. >Any unauthorized or improper disclosure, copying, distribution, or use of the >contents of this e-mail and attached document(s) is prohibited. The >information contained in this e-mail and attached document(s) is intended only >for the personal and private use of the recipient(s) named above. If you have >received this communication in error, please notify the sender immediately by >email and delete the original e-mail and attached document(s). > >______________________________________________ >[email protected] mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see >https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >PLEASE do read the posting guide https://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. -- Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity. [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide https://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
