On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 9:52 AM, Pancho Mulongeni <p.mulong...@namibia.pharmaccess.org> wrote: > Hi All, > Let's say someone uses an R package (prefer to not disclose which) that comes > with two different distributions,the commercial and non-commercial license. > Now the non commercial license has conditions,bit it never runs out. So if > this person knows they should be using the commercial license, because they > are not a student and are paid for their work , (ie they are outside the > non-commercial license) how can one convince management at the > institution/company/not for profit to buy the commercial one? Is it even > necessary? Thanks.
If the non-commercial license never runs out, then that's irrelevant to commercial use. If the user knows they should be using the commercial license, then yes, they should buy the commercial license. Even if they don't know they should be using the commercial license. Ignorance of the law is no excuse. How do you convince company management to buy licenses? Point them to any news stories about being raided by the BSA. The inconvenience will probably cost more in downtime than license fees. Or show them that the package you want to use is cheaper than other commercial solutions. Or do a cost-benefit analysis ("Reimplementing these methods will take X hours = Y dollars >> Cost of Package"). Standard "I am not a lawyer but I had a law PhD girlfriend and used to read her legal theory books" disclaimer applies. Barry ______________________________________________ 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.