From: Greg Brown <greg7224@...>
Date: 2005-08-14T03:26:12+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby report generation tool


Austin Ziegler wrote:
<snip lots of practical opinions about licensing>

I won't use this post as a soapbox for my support of the FSF so I won't
attempt to defend the GPL on list.  However, it's safe to say that I do
believe in their philosophy, and I find the preamble to be one of the
best parts.

> Not trying to be difficult here or even start a flamewar, but trying to
> explain why I prefer the other licences to the GNU GPL.

I appreciate your honest opinion.  I am fairly certain that I will use
the license of ruby.  I.e. a disjunction between the GPL and the Ruby
license.  This way no one needs to deal with the GPL if they don't want
to, and anyone who DOES want to support the use of the GPL may do so
freely.  I feel that this is a fair and reasonable course of action for
someone who is most certainly a Free Software (and not necessarily an
Open Source) advocate.

Will anyone have trouble using Ruport under such a scheme?