From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2005-10-21T08:11:59+09:00
Subject: Re: Why Write Ruby Docs? (was Re: [SUMMARY] Text Image (#50))

James Britt wrote:

> > Is there a reason to believe the documentation is treated differently
> > from the source code of which it's part?  If the documentation is "Ruby
> > Licence", which I expect it is, what implication does that have for
> > copyright?
>
> Could someone sell a book that included the text from the std-lib docs?
> Would the book have to be released under Ruby's license (whatever that
> means)?

I don't know.  Good way of looking at it.

Gavin