Hi, Thank you very much for your replies. Regards, Dr. T. Imam
On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 10:24 PM, Prof Brian Ripley <rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk>wrote: > On 23/06/2013 12:59, Uwe Ligges wrote: > >> >> >> On 23.06.2013 01:50, Dr. T. Imam wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I am new to this forum, and hopefully am sending the post to the right >>> avenue (and in the appropriate format). >>> >>> I am planning to prepare a (to be commercially sold) book in near future, >>> in which I expect to use some screenshots from R (running on Windows), >>> and >>> also graphic outputs from some of the packages.. >>> >>> I am just wondering are there any legal requirements (in respect to >>> copyright/permission of use issue) involved for such commercial use?. >>> >> >> >> We do not give legal advice. >> >> Nevertheless, R is licensed under the GPL 2 or GPL 3. You have to look >> up the license situations for the used packages yourself. >> Both, the authors of R and the package would probably appreciate if you >> cite the software you used. See ?citation in R. >> >> Best, >> Uwe Ligges >> > > Correct. > > But one other comment. There are books containing screenshots (including > old editions of mine) and they do go out-of-date very quickly: they will > also baffle users of other OSes (possibly including other versions of > Windows: screenshots from Windows XP look odd to those who have never used > it). I would recommend confining them to online supplementary material. > > > -- > Brian D. Ripley, rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk > Professor of Applied Statistics, > http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~**ripley/<http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/> > University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) > 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) > Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 > [[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.
