The ad hominem comment about Google skills is also out of line. Knowing
what to search for is often not trivial. The problem is magnified if
English isn't your native language.

On Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 3:59 PM John Maindonald <john.maindon...@anu.edu.au>
wrote:

> 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.maindon...@anu.edu.au<mailto:
> john.maindon...@anu.edu.au>
>
>
> On 23/07/2019, at 22:00, r-help-requ...@r-project.org<mailto:
> r-help-requ...@r-project.org> wrote:
>
> From: Jeff Newmiller <jdnew...@dcn.davis.ca.us<mailto:
> jdnew...@dcn.davis.ca.us>>
> Subject: Re: [R] Regarding R licensing usage guidance
> Date: 23 July 2019 at 07:00:26 NZST
> To: <r-help@r-project.org<mailto:r-help@r-project.org>>, ANAMIKA KUMARI <
> anamika1...@gmail.com<mailto:anamika1...@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 <anamika1...@gmail.com
> <mailto:anamika1...@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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