From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2007-07-06T23:50:23+09:00
Subject: Re: Licence question regarding GPLv2 Ruby script

Hi,

In message "Re: Licence question regarding GPLv2 Ruby script"
    on Fri, 6 Jul 2007 20:46:23 +0900, anonymous <eclipse.survey@yahoo.com> writes:

|The Ruby beautifier script
|(http://www.arachnoid.com/ruby/rubyBeautifier.html) is released under
|the GPLv2 licence.
|
|I understand what the GPLv2 means for a source code which has to be
|compiled and so on like the Ruby interpreter. In the case of a Ruby
|script, I'm not sure to understand correctly all the licence terms.
|
|If I execute only the script from my application (an IDE like
|application) to format a Ruby source, do I have to release my
|application under the GPLv2 licence ?

In short, I don't think so.

							matz.