[#28561] Ruby::DL vs Ruby::FFI — Aston <blackapache512-ticket@...>

Ruby.DL and FFI libraries are great for programmers like me who are not internet programmers, but are more interested in scientific and number processing etc.

11 messages 2010/03/08

[#28686] trunk (26947) build fail with msys/mingw/vista — Jon <jon.forums@...>

I get the following build failure when msysgit's "c:\git\cmd" dir is on PATH.

8 messages 2010/03/16

[#28687] [Bug #2973] rb_bug - Segmentation fault - error.c:213 — rudolf gavlas <redmine@...>

Bug #2973: rb_bug - Segmentation fault - error.c:213

10 messages 2010/03/16

[#28735] [Bug #2982] Ruby tries to link with both openssl and readline — Lucas Nussbaum <redmine@...>

Bug #2982: Ruby tries to link with both openssl and readline

16 messages 2010/03/18

[#28736] [Bug #2983] Ruby (GPLv2 only) tries to link to with readline (now GPLv3) — Lucas Nussbaum <redmine@...>

Bug #2983: Ruby (GPLv2 only) tries to link to with readline (now GPLv3)

10 messages 2010/03/18

[#28907] [Bug #3000] Open SSL Segfaults — Christian Höltje <redmine@...>

Bug #3000: Open SSL Segfaults

19 messages 2010/03/23

[#28924] [Bug #3005] Ruby core dump - [BUG] rb_sys_fail() - errno == 0 — Sebastian YEPES <redmine@...>

Bug #3005: Ruby core dump - [BUG] rb_sys_fail() - errno == 0

10 messages 2010/03/24

[#28954] [Feature #3010] slow require gems in ruby 1.9.1 — Miao Jiang <redmine@...>

Feature #3010: slow require gems in ruby 1.9.1

15 messages 2010/03/24

[#29179] [Bug #3071] Convert rubygems and rdoc to use psych — Aaron Patterson <redmine@...>

Bug #3071: Convert rubygems and rdoc to use psych

10 messages 2010/03/31

[ruby-core:28740] Re: [Bug #2982] Ruby tries to link with both openssl and readline

From: Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@...>
Date: 2010-03-18 09:37:10 UTC
List: ruby-core #28740
On 18/03/10 at 18:23 +0900, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> In message "Re: [ruby-core:28735] [Bug #2982] Ruby tries to link with both openssl and readline"
>     on Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:01:38 +0900, Lucas Nussbaum <redmine@ruby-lang.org> writes:
> 
> |Ruby currently tries to link with both OpenSSL (which is under the SSL license), and Readline (GPL).
> 
> No.  The Ruby does not try to link with those libraries by default,
> unless explicitly required by the user, so that it is a user's
> responsibility to avoid loading those two in the same address space.

Users, and developers of third-party libraries and application. Note
that it is de-facto illegal to use openssl with GPL libraries/gems (and
there are quite a lot of GPL-only libraries/gems).

> License sucks.

Agreed ;)
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