Duncan Murdoch wrote:
On 10/27/2008 9:04 AM, Freiberger, Katrin wrote:
Dear All,
I learned about R during my studies at Cologne University of Applied
Science. Now I work at Allianz Dresdner Bauspar AG and I would like to
install R here too. Is there any license issues that need to be taken
in consideration, any fees to pay by the company? I know there are
answers to this in the FAQs but I didn't really understand the legal
language. Could you therefore just give me concrete answers?
R is licensed under the GPL version 2, a pretty common license. You
should be able to get legal advice on it internally at your company. If
you ask on a forum like this, you'll get lots of advice, but some of it
will likely be wrong. I don't want to add to that, so I won't give any
other than "ask internally".
Hmm, well, on the other hand, that makes it sound as if there are demons
lurking inside. Perhaps a pointer to the GPL FAQ at
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html is in order.
(The GPL specifically disallows restrictions on commercial use.)
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