2008/9/4 Ted Byers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Erin, > > I trust you know what you risk when you assume. ;-) > > There IS a license, but it basically lets you copy or distribute it, or, in > your case, install on as many machines as you wish. It is the "GNU GENERAL > PUBLIC LICENSE". > > Like most open source software I use, the Gnu license is in place primarly > to ensure everyone can freely use it. >
Yes, there's no licence that covers usage - the GNU GPL covers copying, modification, and distribution only. Unlike certain statistical software's end-user licence agreement (EULA), someone who double-clicks an R icon and starts typing doesn't have to agree to anything. In practice, the person doing the classroom install of Other Stats Package will have clicked through the EULA and the users will never have seen the licence they are supposedly licensed under. Great. There's no EULA for R. Barry [practising the UK English practice of 'license' for a verb and 'licence' for a noun - I was advised this was good advice...] ______________________________________________ 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.
