From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2009-09-08T13:58:54+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:25467] Re: [Feature #2032] Change the license to "GPLv2+ 	or Ruby's original".

Hi,

In message "Re: [ruby-core:25466] Re: [Feature #2032] Change the license to "GPLv2+ 	or Ruby's original"."
    on Tue, 8 Sep 2009 12:39:02 +0900, "U.Nakamura" <usa@garbagecollect.jp> writes:

|> The problem would not go away, since it's conflict between openssl and
|> readline.
|
|I doubt that we cannot link Ruby itself and openssl in Windows.
|I've heard that some GPL'ed projects use a special exception for OpenSSL,
|for example, WGET fo Windows.
|
|Matz, can we include such addendum in Ruby's GPL?

I am more than happy if such addendum solves the issue, but I am
afraid that it is readline, not Ruby, that needs addendum to GPL.
Prove me wrong.

							matz.