[R] Regarding R licensing usage guidance

[Marc Schwartz]

Hi,

In addition to Patrick's comments, which are spot on, other versions of the GPL (e.g. 3.0) and other GPL compatible licenses that are or may be relevant to the list of packages that are listed below need to be assessed as well. There are differences, some more nuanced than others, between GPL compatible licenses and how they may affect what you can or cannot do.

If you are going to build a presumably for profit business around open source software, then you need to invest in legal counsel with expertise in the relevant areas of open source software and intellectual property rights, to get appropriate legal opinions on what it is you plan to build, how it will interact with R and the packages you list below, and what all of that means for your product.

Regards,

Marc Schwartz


> On Jul 22, 2019, at 1:28 PM, Patrick (Malone Quantitative) <malone using malonequantitative.com> wrote:
> 
> You're in the wrong place. This is for help with R programming.
> 
> But you shouldn't be asking us either way, as we (at least most of us)
> aren't lawyers. Get your attorney to study the GNU-GPL-2.0 and tell
> you what you need to and can do for your purposes.
> 
> Pat
> 
> On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 1:23 PM ANAMIKA KUMARI <anamika1302 using gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Hello Team,
>> 
>> This mail is in reference to understanding R  license and also usage of  R
>> language to develop commercialised product.
>> 
>> I am working on one product of mine that uses R and python language.I am
>> trying to understand the licensing issue if any related to R, if I am going
>> to commercialise my product and keep my work proprietary.
>> 
>> I need your help to understand it. R comes under GNU-GPL-2.0. Now, do I
>> need to share source code of my product. if, I am moving planning  to move
>> it to production or I can keep my code Proprietary.
>> 
>> Please note that I am just using R and its packages to  develop my own
>> statistical tool and api and Have not done any changes to existing R code.
>> 
>> Please refer below for all R-packages used in my code:-
>> 
>>   1.
>> *R-3.4.4 *
>>   2. *'spacyr'*
>>   3.
>> *'jsonlite' *
>>   4.
>> *'lubridate' *
>>   5.
>> *'data.table' *
>>   6.
>> *'png' *
>>   7.
>> *'maps' *
>>   8.
>> *'countrycode' *
>>   9.
>> *'humaniformat' *
>>   10.
>> *'ngram' *
>>   11.
>> *'stringr' *
>>   12.
>> *'slam' *
>>   13.
>> *'tm' *
>>   14.
>> *'lsa' *
>>   15.
>> *'RTextTools' *
>>   16.
>> *'stringi' *
>>   17.
>> *'plumber' *
>>   18. *"Rook"*
>>   19. *"pdftools"*
>>   20. *'tokenizers'*
>>   21. *'zoo'*
>>   22. *"tidyr"*
>>   23. *"reqres"*
>>   24. *"rJava"*
>>   25. *"tiff"*
>>   26. *"splitstackshape"*
>>   27. *"stringdist"*
>>   28. *"RJSONIO"*
>>   29. *"ropensci/tabulizer"*
>>   30. *"staplr"*
>>   31. *"SparseM"*
>>   32. *"randomForest"*
>>   33. *"e1071"*
>>   34. *"ipred"*
>>   35. *"caTools"*
>>   36. *RCMD INSTALL maxent_1.3.3.1.tar.gz*
>>   37. *RCMD INSTALL tree_1.0-39.tar.gz*
>>   38. *RCMD INSTALL RTextTools_1.4.2.tar.gz*
>> 
>> 
>> *Any help from you will be highly appreciated as I am literally stuck at a
>> dead end.*
>> 
>> *Regards*
>> *Anamika Kumari*