Again, the terms of the license govern the legalities. I don’t think you would 
need any further efforts at licensing your commentary. Screenshots or text 
copies would both be just copies and the appropriate citations would probably 
be all that were needed. I do not think your commentary or explanatory work 
would need to be considered FOSS or a copyleft license. There are many 
instances of commercial, copyrighted books that contain portions of R source 
code. Several businesses exist that sell accessories or packages that depend on 
but are not part of core R. Some of them seem to me to be skirting the line of 
legality but I don’t think there have been any cases brought before judicial 
authorities. So your plans seems completely safe and well inside accepted and 
legal boundaries to my understanding. 

David 

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> On May 2, 2021, at 2:39 AM, Maja Analytics <maja.analytics.b...@gmail.com> 
> wrote:
> 
> 
> Thanks for the advice.
> 
> What about R code? Is that free to share? I would use my own dataset or made 
> up dataset, so I am only now interested what about R code, can I screenshot 
> it and then explain what is on the photo?
> 
> Maja
> 
> ned, 2. svi 2021. u 01:17 David Winsemius <dwinsem...@comcast.net> napisao je:
>> Any answer you get here will will have all the authority of "some guy on the 
>> Internet", but my reading of the licenses is that as long as you give proper 
>> credit that you can use any material in teaching or commercial purposes AND 
>> derivative works are likewise copy-able on an open source (FOSS) basis. You 
>> should read the LinkedIn TOS and make sure that posting there is not subject 
>> to some sort of publisher's copyright. That might be a violation fo the 
>> licensing for material copied from CRAN sources. Acknowledgment alone might 
>> not be an acceptable use. You may need to seek appropriate legal counsel or 
>> get opinions from the creators of the licensing language, since there are a 
>> variety of license.
>> 
>> David Winsemius, MD, (IANAL)
>> 
>> 
>> > On May 1, 2021, at 12:17 PM, Maja Analytics 
>> > <maja.analytics.b...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > 
>> > Hello!
>> > 
>> > I would like to make tutorials for non-data scientists in R on Medium and
>> > as LinkedIn articles. Could you tell me if I can use R sample datasets (I
>> > would note the acknowledgements on the end) for that?
>> > 
>> > Thanks in advance, kind regards,
>> > Maja
>> > 
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