From: Anders Bengtsson <ndrsbngtssn@...>
Date: 2002-09-08T23:51:41+09:00
Subject: Re: JRuby (was Re: OS-independent build of ruby)

Austin Ziegler wrote:
> JRuby exists ...
> 
> http://jruby.sourceforge.net/
> 
> but it's under the GPL (not even under the LGPL).
> 
> Blech.

Hi Austin,

We intend to licence JRuby under both LGPL and GPL soon. Stay tuned.

> I realise that this person may be perfectly legitimate to do this 
> (although I'm not super sure; it's likely based on the existing 
> source and claims to be 1.6.7 compatible for most purposes), but it's 
> still nasty, IMO, not to do it under the same licence as the base 
> implementation.

The base impl. is released under the GPL (among other licences). I'm
surprised that someone would regard using that licence as "nasty".

Anyway, we're always open for suggestions on how we should licence
JRuby. Would you see any problems with a combined GPL/LGPL?

/Anders

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