From: Phil <cmdjackryan@...>
Date: 2007-09-13T10:01:25+09:00
Subject: Re: IronRuby

> From: Michael T. Richter [mailto:ttmrichter@gmail.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2007 1:16 AM
> To: ruby-talk ML
> Subject: Re: IronRuby
>
> And this is different from the viral portions of the GPL suite how,
> precisely?  If I make a program with over a million lines of code 
> and add a hundred lines from a GPLed source, suddenly all of my 
> millions of lines of code are under the GPL. 
> Or is this different because it's Microsoft?


Actually, the old BSD license with attribution clause is a closer fit. The MS-PL doesn't require you to publish your code with the same license, as the GPL does.

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Phillip Gawlowski