From: Jan Arne Petersen <jpetersen@...>
Date: 2002-09-09T01:49:16+09:00
Subject: Re: JRuby (was Re: OS-independent build of ruby)

On Sun, 08 Sep 2002 02:36:35 +0000, Austin Ziegler wrote:

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

1) It isn't a question of your opinion but a question of the license. I will discuss this
topic only with the copyright holders of the original ruby because in my opinion copyright
violation is a very hard accusation.

2) Main contributors of JRuby don't want to license JRuby under the Ruby license. If we really
have to use also the Ruby license we could throw away the whole existing JRuby code and restart
from nothing. But it should be clear that I wouldn't do this work again.

3) We are working hard to release JRuby also under the LGPL. I spend a lot of time to create
JRuby and I never get any money for this work neither direct nor indirect. It is very
depressing to be confronted with your reproachs.

If you want to use JRuby under another license you can contact us (with an adequate email) but
if you don't like the JRuby project and want to stop it you are on the right way.

Jan Arne Petersen