From: Brian Tol Date: 2007-07-28T01:10:16+09:00 Subject: Re: [ANN] Rubypub.com - A Ruby Documentation Wiki On 7/27/07, Gregory Brown wrote: > On 7/27/07, Brian Tol wrote: > > > To be honest, that was my biggest hesitation in developing the site. > > Pissing people off is the _last_ thing I want to do. On the other > > hand, since (a) lots of gems need better (or _any_) documentation, and > > (b) gems are licensed in such a way that allow for reuse like this, I > > thought I'd give it a go. > > (b) isn't true. What makes you assume that? Good to know. I looked through a couple hundred gems looking at licenses before I started this thing, so that's where I got that idea, and looked at this page: http://rubyforge.org/softwaremap/trove_list.php?form_cat=13 The "Other/Proprietary License" licensed projects are either (a) dual license under GPL, or (b) haven't released anything. The remaining gems are released under public domain, CC, OSI-approved, or Ruby licenses. From what I've read, and in talking with other people, the CC, OSI and Ruby licenses would work with rubypub. That all said, violating license terms is really antithetical to rubypub's goals, so more feedback is appreciated. Violating licenses doesn't help end-users, or gem authors. -- Brian "Chip" Tol http://www.wiremine.org wiremine@gmail.com