From: Ron Mayer <rm_rails@...>
Date: 2009-09-05T01:48:11+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:25366] Re: [Feature #2032] Change the license to "GPLv2+ or Ruby's original".

Gregory Brown wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 5:38 AM, Shyouhei Urabe<redmine@ruby-lang.org> wrote:
>> My understanding is that if ... "tainted" by GPLv3
> ...Hope my understanding is correct here...

IMHO there seems to be a lot of legal guesswork in this thread.

There are organizations out there that provide free legal services
for F/OSS projects; and if such a license change were being seriously
considered, it's probably a good idea to ask their help.  Here's one
I'm aware of: http://www.softwarefreedom.org/technology/
"mission to provide pro bono legal services to Free and Open Source Software projects"