From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2006-04-07T01:32:30+09:00
Subject: Re: GPL v3 and Ruby License.

Hi,

In message "Re: GPL v3 and Ruby License."
    on Fri, 7 Apr 2006 01:18:41 +0900, Andrew Johnson <ajohnson@cpan.org> writes:

|Be careful what you assume about the GPL. Consider clause 9 of
|the GPL file included with current Ruby

|In other words, because the current Ruby distribution does not 
|explicitly
|restrict itself to a specific version of the GPL, anyone can re-release
|or re-distribute current Ruby entirely under any published version of 
|the
|GPL, including GPLv3 (when it comes out).

Agreed.  I will change the description to:

 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
 version 2 (see the file GPL), or the conditions below:
 ^^^^^^^^^
in the near future to clarify.

							matz.