From: Ken Bloom <kbloom@...>
Date: 2006-08-14T06:45:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Using Ruby in a commercial application?

On Mon, 14 Aug 2006 04:33:38 +0900, Chanon Sajjamanochai wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I just began learning Ruby a few hours ago, but it has been enough to 
> convince me that it is the language I want to write in.
> 
> I first decided to learn it because I wanted to learn Rails to create a 
> web application. But now that I like it so much .. I want to use it in 
> my current business (which is writing shareware games).
> 
> So I'm wondering, what do I have to do to be able to use Ruby in a 
> commercial application such as a shareware game?

From a purely technical standpoint, you're not going to be able to protect
your investment because Ruby is an interpreted language, and can't even be
compiled to bytecode yet.

I am not a lawyer, nor an author of Ruby, so I can't advise on anything
else.

--Ken

-- 
Ken Bloom. PhD candidate. Linguistic Cognition Laboratory.
Department of Computer Science. Illinois Institute of Technology.
http://www.iit.edu/~kbloom1/