From: Mamoru Tasaka <redmine@...>
Date: 2009-08-28T20:18:05+09:00
Subject: [ruby-dev:39182] [Feature #2000] Change the license to "GPLv2+ or Ruby's original".

チケット #2000 が更新されました。 (by Mamoru Tasaka)


Ah, I thought that I was already subscribing to this bug ticket.

The problem is:
>|I interpretd this paragraph says,
>|Ruby's License is alyways GPLv2 compat.
>|
>|> b) note that
>|> readline extension can be distributed by GPLv3 as well (triple
>|> license).
>|
>|If the readline is GPLv3 and readline extension is linked to it,
>|the extension must be GPLv3 compat.
>|If the readline extension is GPLv3 and the extension is linked to Ruby,
>|Ruby must be GPLv3 compat.
>|
>|b) is not acceptable.
>
>If it's true, life sucks.  I hate licensing issues.  So we have two
>GPL software, both respecting the spirit of free software, but still
>we have license problem.  ****.

This is exactly true and if we use readline 6 and make ruby's readline.so
linked against both libreadline.so and libruby.so, ruby "itself" (not ruby's
readline module only) must be GPLv3 compat , so b) is not the option.
(By the way on Fedora not all softwares using readline have switched to GPLv3
 compat license, so currently Fedora ships both readline 6 and readline 5)

Well, the license issue is always really annoying , however I hope this issue
is resolved somehow.

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