From: Armin Roehrl <armin@...>
Date: 2001-11-08T02:01:26+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:24537] Re: kill rdtool?

I'm also for LGPL and not GPL for Ruby, _but_ it's all up 
to our dictator matz :-).

	Armin
On Wednesday 07 November 2001 17:57, you wrote:
> Linux is not a library.  If you ship a product that even links to a GPL
> library then that product becomes totally GPL and free.  That is
> unacceptable in the commercial world.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pierre-Charles David [mailto:Pierre-Charles.David@emn.fr]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2001 8:47 AM
> To: ruby-talk ML
> Subject: [ruby-talk:24534] Re: kill rdtool?
>
> Mark Hahn wrote:
> > Unfortunately doxygen appears to be GPL instead of LGPL.  I don't think
>
> any
>
> > GPL should be standardized as that would remove Ruby from the commercial
> > world.
>
> Uh? Ruby itself is already GPL (although it has dual-licensing). Linux
> is GPL-only and it's doing fine in the commercial world.
>
> --
> Pierre-Charles David (pcdavid <at> emn <dot> fr)
> Computer Science PhD Student, �cole des Mines de Nantes, France
> Homepage: http://purl.org/net/home/pcdavid

-- 
Armin.

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