From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2006-04-06T16:20:23+09:00
Subject: Re: GPL v3 and Ruby License.

Hi,

In message "Re: GPL v3 and Ruby License."
    on Thu, 6 Apr 2006 02:03:34 +0900, "Gregory Brown" <gregory.t.brown@gmail.com> writes:

|Meaning... when GPLv3 comes out, do we.
|
|a) Resist it by removing any "any later version" clauses from our
|license agreements which use the license of ruby
|
|b) Embrace it and re-release code using GPLv3 and Matz's terms, but
|make sure the FSF hears the voice of our community beforehand.
|
|c) Can it entirely and favor an established license such as the BSD license.
|
|d) Draft up our own license, possibly with cartoon foxes.

For your information, at the beginning of Ruby's license, we see:

  Ruby is copyrighted free software by Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@netlab.jp>.
  You can redistribute it and/or modify it under either the terms of the GPL
  (see the file GPL), or the conditions below:

and the file GPL contains GPLv2, so you have no option to choose GPLv3
automatically even when it comes out.  Even though I have no objection
to GPLv3 unlike Linus right now, still we don't have any problem with
our current licensing.  So I'd wait for few more years after the final
release to settle things down, then if we find no problem, I would
replace the GPL file to GPLv3.

							matz.