From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2004-10-29T16:44:40+09:00
Subject: Re: Licensing (was: Float and Bignum)

Hi,

In message "Re: Licensing (was: Float and Bignum)"
    on Fri, 29 Oct 2004 14:57:43 +0900, "trans.  (T. Onoma)" <transami@runbox.com> writes:

|| Because it places restrictions on embedding Ruby. Languages are too
|| important to put under restrictive licences like GPL and LGPL.
|
|Is that right, matz?  LGPL is too restrictive in this way?  Would a more 
|BSD-like license be needed?

That is right.  Ruby 1.8 comes with regex.c which is covered by LGPL.
I have to mention that repeatedly to the people who ask me for Ruby
embedding.  It is very tiresome.  That's one of the biggest reason
that I switched to Oniguruma regex engine in 1.9.

|I wonder if the GMP team could/would make a special license arrangement for 
|Ruby. Who knows. May be worth a try. A see a couple of potential pluses 
|arising from such:

I am not opposing to the negotiation, though I don't want to do that
by myself (mostly due to the language barrier).

							matz.