From: darren kirby <bulliver@...>
Date: 2006-06-17T03:05:30+09:00
Subject: Re: License question

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quoth the Patrick Hurley:
> > On 6/15/06, darren kirby <bulliver@badcomputer.org> wrote:
> > > Hello all,
> > >
> > > I have translated a Perl module that grabs info from wma files to Rub=
y.
> > > This
> > >
> > > module's license says:
> > > >This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
> > > > it under the same terms as Perl itself.
> > >
> > > I wonder how I should or have to license my Ruby library accordingly,
>
> I would second the notion of contacting the author to get permission
> to license with the same terms as Ruby. The licenses are very close,
> and I doubt this would break the spirit of the author's request -- but
> it does violate the letter, so contact the author.

I have just done so.

I sent him a link to the Ruby license and said I would prefer to license it=
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using the Ruby license if it was acceptable to him.

> If you cannot contact them, just use the original author's same
> licensing, I don't see any real practical differences in how it would
> affect most developers. I like the GPL for some things, but I would
> not release a library with only GPL licensing.

I guess it really doesn't make a difference at the end of the day, but I=20
thought it would be odd to see a Ruby lib released under the Perl license..

> pth

Thanks for the responses everyone, my head hurts thinking about all these=20
license issues!

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darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.org
"...the number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected..."
=2D Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, June 1972

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