Dear R People: I am trying to install R in a classroom here, but have been told that there must be a license. Is there such a thing with R, please? Since it is free, I "assumed" that there would be no license. Thanks for any help, Sincerely, Erin -- Erin Hodgess Associate Professor Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences University of Houston - Downtown mailto: erinm.hodgess at gmail.com
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. Cheers Ted Erin Hodgess-2 wrote:> > Dear R People: > > I am trying to install R in a classroom here, but have been told that > there must be a license. > > Is there such a thing with R, please? Since it is free, I "assumed" > that there would be no license. > > Thanks for any help, > Sincerely, > Erin > > > -- > Erin Hodgess > Associate Professor > Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences > University of Houston - Downtown > mailto: erinm.hodgess at gmail.com > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at 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. > >-- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/%22license%22-for-a-university-tp19299998p19300187.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
Erin Did you try licence() or license() HTH .... Peter Alspach> -----Original Message----- > From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org > [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of Erin Hodgess > Sent: Thursday, 4 September 2008 10:59 a.m. > To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch > Subject: [R] "license" for a university > > Dear R People: > > I am trying to install R in a classroom here, but have been > told that there must be a license. > > Is there such a thing with R, please? Since it is free, I "assumed" > that there would be no license. > > Thanks for any help, > Sincerely, > Erin > > > -- > Erin Hodgess > Associate Professor > Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences University > of Houston - Downtown > mailto: erinm.hodgess at gmail.com > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at 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. >The contents of this e-mail are privileged and/or confidential to the named recipient and are not to be used by any other person and/or organisation. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender and delete all material pertaining to this e-mail.
Try: license() On Sep 3, 2008, at 6:59 PM, Erin Hodgess wrote:> Dear R People: > > I am trying to install R in a classroom here, but have been told that > there must be a license. > > Is there such a thing with R, please? Since it is free, I "assumed" > that there would be no license. > > Thanks for any help, > Sincerely, > Erin > > > -- > Erin Hodgess > Associate Professor > Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences > University of Houston - Downtown > mailto: erinm.hodgess at gmail.com > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at 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.Haris Skiadas Department of Mathematics and Computer Science Hanover College