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R Foundation

The R Foundation supports the R project and holds the copyright of R, a language and environment for statistical computing developed by the R Core Team. R is free software distributed under the GNU GPL version 2 or version 3.

Licensing at a Glance

  • Open source

  1. R as a package is licensed under GPL-2 | GPL-3; some files are licensed under GPL version 2 or later.[1]

  2. R is available as Free Software under the terms of the Free Software Foundation's GNU General Public License in source code form.[2]

  3. The R Core Team's opinion is that R can be used for commercial purposes, for example in business or consulting; a few add-on packages are restricted to non-commercial use.[3]

  4. The R Foundation is a not-for-profit organisation founded by members of the R Development Core Team that holds and administers the copyright of R software and documentation.[4]

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References

  1. R: Licenses · r-project.org · retrieved 2026-09-27
  2. R: What is R? · r-project.org · retrieved 2026-09-27
  3. R FAQ · cran.r-project.org · retrieved 2026-09-27
  4. R: The R Foundation · r-project.org · retrieved 2026-09-27
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