Commerical Licensing

bradley · September 26, 2018, 5:17pm

Hi everyone,

First of all I want to thank the developers of plotly for such an awesome product.

I know this has been asked many times in many different ways, but at my company we’d like to use plotly in the following way:

we use RStudio to develop shiny apps and would like to use https://github.com/ropensci/plotly
the shiny apps that result from this will be published to a company-internal website running RStudio Connect (ultimately boils down to hosting websites running plotly.js)

as far as I can tell, we wouldn’t need to use Dash, the API, or any kind of hosting solutions offered. Would our setup require a commercial license? I know a lot of this stuff is open source, but that doesn’t necessarily make it free.

c_f · September 27, 2018, 1:37pm

I am not familiar with RStudio, so I might be a little off here and I can’t speak for the creators of Dash / Plotly, but my understanding is that the code is generally available for commercial use. At least these GitHub repos are very clear about plotly / dash being MIT licensed:

github.com

plotly/dash/blob/master/LICENSE

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2017 Plotly, Inc

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN

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c_f · September 27, 2018, 1:39pm

Maybe it would be helpful to ask your question here if it is more related to RStudio:

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