From: dblack@...
Date: 2006-05-28T06:31:53+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Recipients of Google Summer of Code awards

Hi --

On Sat, 27 May 2006, Curt Hibbs wrote:

> One the SoC project page for Ruby it states that the prefered license for
> these projects was GPL. What is the reason for this, was it required by
> Google?
>
> I would have expected the prefered license to be the Ruby license, or MIT,
> or BSD, or some such.

The reason was that it was the closest thing I could find to the Ruby
license (i.e., it's one of the options in the dual license) on the
drop-down menu from which I had to choose....  So it's really
shorthand for "the Ruby dual license, of which only this half was
available to me to select" :-)


David

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