R help - Mar 2016 - possible to use the program for commercial reasons?

Dear R-Team,
 
I am a scientist actually working in parallel as data analyst for an
advertisment auditing company. Therefore i would use your software for
commercial reasons right now. Is this allowed, o rare there special licences?
 
Best Regards,
 
Felix T?pfer
B?roassistenz
 
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> On Mar 21, 2016, at 6:44 AM, Felix T?pfer <f.toepfer at komet.net>
wrote:
> 
> Dear R-Team,
> 
> I am a scientist actually working in parallel as data analyst for an
advertisment auditing company. Therefore i would use your software for
commercial reasons right now. Is this allowed, o rare there special licences?
> 
> Best Regards,
> 
> Felix T?pfer
> B?roassistenz
Hi,

See this FAQ:

 
https://cran.r-project.org/doc/FAQ/R-FAQ.html#Can-I-use-R-for-commercial-purposes_003f

There are a significant number of R users in a commercial/for-profit setting, me
being one of them. There is nothing in the R license that prevents you from
*using* R in a commercial setting.

There are a limited number of third party add-on packages that are on CRAN
however, that do have non-commercial use only restrictions, so just be aware of
that.

The GPL, which is the license under which R is released and referenced in the
above FAQ, has certain requirements if you wish to copy/distribute R and/or if
you develop code which "links" to R in certain ways and wish to
copy/distribute that work. If this is your use case, you should consult legal
counsel familiar with open source licenses, since there can be requirements that
would require you to make your source code available.

Regards,

Marc