R help - Aug 2012 - Course

Hello, 

I am a student of Materials Engineering and I want to minister an
introductory course of R at the university I study here in Brazil. I know R is
a free software, but I just want to know if I do need a special authorization
for doing it. The course will be totaly free and I also will not receive any
money for doing it. The idea is just to show the program. 

--


Atenciosamente,
Pedro Lamarão
ITEC/UFPA/PPGEM/GPEMAT
 
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Dear Pedro 

in your R session, enter the commands

   license()
   RShowDoc("COPYING")

   "R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
    You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions."

Those imply no restriction on charging a fee for presenting courses in R.

albyn  

On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 03:42:54PM +0200, Pedro Henrique Lamar?o Souza
wrote:
>  
> 
> Hello, 
> 
> I am a student of Materials Engineering and I want to minister an
> introductory course of R at the university I study here in Brazil. I know R
is
> a free software, but I just want to know if I do need a special
authorization
> for doing it. The course will be totaly free and I also will not receive
any
> money for doing it. The idea is just to show the program. 
> 
> --
> 
> 
> Atenciosamente,
> Pedro Lamar??o
> ITEC/UFPA/PPGEM/GPEMAT
>  
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> 
> ______________________________________________
> 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.

-- 
Albyn Jones
Reed College
jones at reed.edu

I am not a lawyer, and you should not ask for such advice on the Web. However,
if you read the GNU license, it does not mention such activities. Money is not
traditionally the issue with free software... the obligation to pass the source
along if you change it is. I have personally taken a course my work paid for,
and I have purchased CDROMs of Linux distributions before.
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"Pedro Henrique Lamar?o Souza" <pedrolamarao at ufpa.br> wrote:
> 
>
>Hello, 
>
>I am a student of Materials Engineering and I want to minister an
>introductory course of R at the university I study here in Brazil. I
>know R is
>a free software, but I just want to know if I do need a special
>authorization
>for doing it. The course will be totaly free and I also will not
>receive any
>money for doing it. The idea is just to show the program. 
>
>--
>
>
>Atenciosamente,
>Pedro Lamar??o
>ITEC/UFPA/PPGEM/GPEMAT
> 
>	[[alternative HTML version deleted]]
>
>______________________________________________
>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.

On 28/08/2012 9:42 AM, Pedro Henrique Lamar?o Souza
wrote:
>   
>
> Hello,
>
> I am a student of Materials Engineering and I want to minister an
> introductory course of R at the university I study here in Brazil. I know R
is
> a free software, but I just want to know if I do need a special
authorization
> for doing it. The course will be totaly free and I also will not receive
any
> money for doing it. The idea is just to show the program.
R's license imposes no restrictions on how you use it.  There are some 
restrictions imposed on how you distribute it, but giving copies to 
students would be allowed.

There are a few R packages with more restrictive licenses, but most are 
as free as R is.

Duncan Murdoch