From: Jim Menard <jimm@...>
Date: 2001-11-08T23:44:34+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:24657] Re: license terms (Re:  Re: kill rdtool?)

matz@ruby-lang.org (Yukihiro Matsumoto) writes:

> Hi,
> 
> In message "[ruby-talk:24537] Re: kill rdtool?"
>     on 01/11/08, Armin Roehrl <armin@approximity.com> writes:
> 
> |I'm also for LGPL and not GPL for Ruby, _but_ it's all up 
> |to our dictator matz :-).
> 
> Ruby is under EITHER GPL or my terms.  It's GPL'ed for historical
> reason.  I plan to change license terms to be BSD-like in the future.

I think that's great. Why do you write "BSD-like" instead of "BSD" (or
"MIT")? The only reason I care is because I like to use the Ruby license
for my projects. SourceForge and Freshmeat both offer the list of
OSS-approved licenses when you register your project. I'd love it if the
Ruby license could appear on that list.

Jim
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