From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto) Date: 2004-07-16T00:33:19+09:00 Subject: Re: Problem using Ruby as script language, which limits its distribution speed Hi, In message "Problem using Ruby as script language, which limits its distribution speed" on 04/07/15, "Christian Kaiser" writes: |Is there an official statement on Ruby and commercial usage? I know LICENSE |and it is neither bulletproof (the "exceptions" in the file list, see LEGAL, |give our legal department heartaches) nor does it state clearly whether it's |allowed to use the library (*.DLL in my Windows' case) alone - which in my |case would be sufficient - I don't need to compile any C source code, I just |want to be able to evaluate a .rb script. No license in LEGAL file should stop you from using Ruby in the commercial applications. No obligation but honoring copyrights, in different expression unfortunately. The only exception is LGPL applied to regex.[ch], which may cause problem when it requests re-linking of your application. But it can be easily avoided by replacing it by Oniguruma (new regex engine). A company in Japan embedded Ruby 1.8.1 interpreter (with Oniguruma) in its commercial role playing game generator, just released this month of July. matz.