On Wed, 2008-07-30 at 21:05 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > now which license to use?
Use whatever you or your company want to use. As long as it is in compliance with GPL2 (as that is the licence R currently uses) then you are fine. As to whether what you intend to do is in compliance with the GPL2, then you'll find only lay-person comments on this list (as far as I know there are know lawyers lurking on the list that have raised their heads...), some informed because they have gone through similar procedures in their work place/business and others less well informed. If this is really important to you/your business, then consult a lawyer. R Core are not lawyers and as such you won't see them contributing to threads like this, other than to answer the basics (e.g. the "what licence is R released under" type question). > > it is bad enough explaining SaaS (software as a service), and open > source and data mining to lawyers, without the experts fighting it as > well. I doubt anyone contributing to this thread would call themselves an expect in this field, and they are not fighting, just offering opinions - but I wouldn't base my business model on these opinions on GPL, licensing etc. You need a lawyer for that, preferably one that is familiar with the computing industry and software licences. This list is not the place to solicit such advice, as you have found out. G > > and who pays for the cloud computing expenses for me then if there is > no money in it. cloud computing doesnt exist in India right now from > where I am writing this? > > regards, > > ajay > decisionstats.com > > On 7/30/08, Roland Rau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Stevens, Martin Henry H. Dr. wrote: > >> The limit of use is that you cannot profit from it. It is Open Source. > > > > I am not sure what you mean exactly. If you mean that you can not earn > > any money selling free software (in terms of the GPL2, which is R's > > licence), this seems to be not the case: > > http://www.fsf.org/licensing/essays/selling.html > > > > Best, > > Roland > > > > ______________________________________________ > 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. -- %~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~% Dr. Gavin Simpson [t] +44 (0)20 7679 0522 ECRC, UCL Geography, [f] +44 (0)20 7679 0565 Pearson Building, [e] gavin.simpsonATNOSPAMucl.ac.uk Gower Street, London [w] http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucfagls/ UK. WC1E 6BT. [w] http://www.freshwaters.org.uk %~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~% ______________________________________________ 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.
