Disclaimer: I am a lawyer so this all should be verified elsewhere, but best I understand it (and would welcome verification by someone who knows more about this):
The R-Project (broadly taken) is an extensive collection of packages + a core interpreter. The interpreter, the base packages, and most available add-on packages are licensed on the GPL (GNU Public License). Consequently they are free for use, no charge for anyone: however, commercial redistribution is trickier since the GPL is "copyleft". If you don't have any intent to redistribute (i.e., to write R code to give to anyone else) the license questions almost certainly don't apply to you. If you are wiling to put your code under a widely accepted open-source license, it is quite easy to redistribute and the R-Project (in the form of CRAN) provides a powerful platform for doing so. Much more information can be found about this here: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html Certainly, in my experience, it is widely used by faculty and students in an academic context with no legal worries. R is an interpreted language, so one can't make executables from it. Anything else you want to do, you can do for free. Including ordering pizza! (though I imagine one would still be expected to pay for the pizza) Michael On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 1:28 PM, Sylhetrin <sylhet...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear reader, I'm a student on engineering studies at Silesian University of > Technology in Gliwice in Poland, my field of study is Technology and > Mechanical Engineering on Integrated process of manufacturing systems, also > I held a Bachelor's degree on Automation and Robotics. However I have a view > questions about the R-Project, as far as I'm aware of on your website the > program appears to be free to use, which captured my eyes, but does that > mean this program (r-project) can be used by any degree students, for > instance as a leaner or a teacher, on the other hand are there any > limitations of how the program can be used, for example if I wanted to > compile *.exe program file using the R program could that be achieved, > without any cost. > > Although I request further information on terms and condition, including > license, and any other useful information about using r-project as learning > tool for university students and projects. > > Hope to hear from you soon, thank you for your time. > > > > sincerely Karol Porwol > > > > . > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > 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@r-project.org mailing list 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.