[R] Regarding R licensing usage guidance

[John Maindonald]

I think this unfair, certainly the ‘odious’ comment.  Very many of us
have been able to contribute because supported to do such work
while occupying relatively comfortable academic positions.  In the
process of getting there, we have benefited enormously from the
work of those who have gone before.  I do not know what Anamika’s
position is, but he may well be trying to build a business from a
much less privileged starting point than others of us may have
enjoyed.  In any case, the comment strikes a tone that is out of
place in respectful discourse.


John Maindonald             email: john.maindonald using anu.edu.au<mailto:john.maindonald using anu.edu.au>


On 23/07/2019, at 22:00, r-help-request using r-project.org<mailto:r-help-request using r-project.org> wrote:

From: Jeff Newmiller <jdnewmil using dcn.davis.ca.us<mailto:jdnewmil using dcn.davis.ca.us>>
Subject: Re: [R] Regarding R licensing usage guidance
Date: 23 July 2019 at 07:00:26 NZST
To: <r-help using r-project.org<mailto:r-help using r-project.org>>, ANAMIKA KUMARI <anamika1302 using gmail.com<mailto:anamika1302 using gmail.com>>


Your internet skills are pathetic. Search Google for "proprietary use gpl" and the first hit is

https://opensource.stackexchange.com/questions/7078/is-it-legal-to-use-gpl-code-in-a-proprietary-closed-source-program-by-putting-i

Note that there are (at least) three obvious alternatives if there is any question in your case: release the code under GPL but also sell it with support (a la RStudio); only use it yourself (don't distribute it at all); or only use R for setting up your models but re-engineer implementations of the run-time prediction calculations yourself (often much easier than the initial algorithm development).

I think your desperation to steal the hard work of the various R contributors seems quite odious.

On July 22, 2019 6:55:31 AM PDT, ANAMIKA KUMARI <anamika1302 using gmail.com<mailto: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*

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