Thanks for this (and everyone else's!) responses! I really appreciate it. You've all given me a lot of potential workarounds.
Damien p.s., I suspect this will apply to Firefox, GIMP, OOo.org, and all the other great OS tools I use on a daily basis. On 5/19/06, Marc Schwartz (via MN) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, 2006-05-19 at 17:59 -0300, Rogerio Porto wrote: > > While reading the various answers, I've remembered that > > the juridic part can't be that so simple. If I'm not fogeting > > something, there are some packages in R that has a more > > restrictive licence than GPL. > > > > HTH, > > > > Rogerio. > > Any CRAN packages (or other R packages not on CRAN) that have > "non-commercial" use restrictions, likely would not be able to be used > by the OP anyway, even prior to this new policy. > > So I suspect that this would be a non-issue. > > If Damien's employer is willing to accept the GPL license (probably the > most significant issue) and feels the need to pay for "something", they > could make an appropriate donation to the R Foundation. Perhaps even > secure a little PR benefit for having done so. > > Is Damien's employer allowing the use of Firefox instead of IE? > > If so, the precedent within the confines of the policy has been set > already. Firefox is GPL, free and no CD. > > There is an awful lot of "commercial" software out there than can be > purchased online, "properly licensed" and downloaded, without the need > for a physical CD. Anti-virus software perhaps being the most notable > example. > > So: > > License: GPL > CD: Don't need one > Purchase: Donation to the R Foundation > Being able to use R: Priceless > > :-) > > HTH, > > Marc Schwartz > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html