Hi, I kindly interesting can i use R for commercial projects for free? I am going to get statistics in my commercial project with R and wanted to know will it be legal or no? Thanks in advance. Best Regards, Dmitry [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
On 21/04/2020 11:11 a.m., dmitry sergey wrote:> Hi, > > I kindly interesting can i use R for commercial projects for free? I am > going to get statistics in my commercial project with R and wanted to know > will it be legal or no?If you are distributing R as part of your project, then you will need to license your project in a compatible way, e.g. GPL, and distribute its full source. Nothing stopping you from doing that commercially. Duncan Murdoch> > Thanks in advance. > > Best Regards, > Dmitry > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > 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. >
If you comply with the relevant licenses... sure... open source can be compatible with commercial activity. But your description of your use case is way too deficient for anyone to even comment on. Since this is not a legal advice forum, go ask your question of a lawyer familiar with open source software licenses. On April 21, 2020 8:11:32 AM PDT, dmitry sergey <dmitry.sergey at gmail.com> wrote:>Hi, > >I kindly interesting can i use R for commercial projects for free? I am >going to get statistics in my commercial project with R and wanted to >know >will it be legal or no? > >Thanks in advance. > >Best Regards, >Dmitry > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > >______________________________________________ >R-help at r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see >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.-- Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity.
The "contamination" of other code by GPL is not absolute... it _is_ possible to use GPL code without releasing your code similarly, and blithely suggesting otherwise perpetuates myths about GPL. That said, it is very tricky to do so while presenting a clean user experience, and doing so is likely to raise objections on the part of consumers of your commercial product unless you do it right. The appropriate response here is to reccommend consultation with a lawyer familiar with these issues. Informally, I would recommend against doing this from a user experience perspective... but not because of contamination. On April 21, 2020 9:12:51 AM PDT, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan at gmail.com> wrote:>On 21/04/2020 11:11 a.m., dmitry sergey wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I kindly interesting can i use R for commercial projects for free? I >am >> going to get statistics in my commercial project with R and wanted to >know >> will it be legal or no? > >If you are distributing R as part of your project, then you will need >to >license your project in a compatible way, e.g. GPL, and distribute its >full source. Nothing stopping you from doing that commercially. > >Duncan Murdoch > >> >> Thanks in advance. >> >> Best Regards, >> Dmitry >> >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-help at r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see >> 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. >> > >______________________________________________ >R-help at r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see >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.-- Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity.
It is legal (subject to licensing conditions), as mentioned by Duncan and Jeff. However, I would like to add two comments: (1) If you use R in publications/reports, I strongly recommend you cite R. (2) If you benefit from R, I strongly recommend contributing to R, in some form. This could include hiring R programmers for more than the absolute bare minimum of R work. Noting that none of the employers in my country, except possibly universities (and even then not much), are interested in cultivating employees with significant R expertise. It could also include making donations to the R Foundation, or offering web hosting. Anything is better than nothing... On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 4:00 AM dmitry sergey <dmitry.sergey at gmail.com> wrote:> > Hi, > > I kindly interesting can i use R for commercial projects for free? I am > going to get statistics in my commercial project with R and wanted to know > will it be legal or no? > > Thanks in advance. > > Best Regards, > Dmitry > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > 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.
I cannot tell from your message whether
(a) your project is a statistical consulting one and you want to
use R to do the calculations and graphics for it, but will not
give your client R itself,or
(b) your project will deliver software to the client, and that
software will include a copy of R.
In case (a), the answer is "of course you can".
In case (b), see the other replies. But had you considered just
providing a little (shell or PowerShell) script your client can run
to download and install R themselves?
On Wed, 22 Apr 2020 at 04:00, dmitry sergey <dmitry.sergey at gmail.com>
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> Hi,
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> I kindly interesting can i use R for commercial projects for free? I am
> going to get statistics in my commercial project with R and wanted to know
> will it be legal or no?
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> Thanks in advance.
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> Best Regards,
> Dmitry
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> ______________________________________________
> R-help at r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see
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> PLEASE do read the posting guide
http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.