Positron's (Rstudio successor) license prohibits making the software available to users as a managed service: https://github.com/posit-dev/positron?tab=License-1-ov-file#

Does that mean universities have to pay license fees if admins install Positron on student computers?

Seeing how Rstudio became defacto synonymous with R, a move to a nonfree licence of a major IDE could really harm the "open source image" of R.

Luckily the name Positron makes clear that it's not the same as R, unlike "Rstudio"...

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