From: Jan Arne Petersen <jpetersen@...>
Date: 2002-09-09T03:49:27+09:00
Subject: Re: JRuby (was Re: OS-independent build of ruby)

On Sun, 08 Sep 2002 19:31:55 +0200, reckless wrote:

>> if you don't like the JRuby project and want to stop it you are on the
> right way.
> 
> 
> Grow up and get professional. The reason people are not thrilled is that they may be interested in
> using Jruby on commercial projects; the GNU licenses restrict this. This is great for the open
> source community, but not so great for commercial developers who what to take advantage of open
> source. It all depends on what market you want to reach with your product or if you don't want to
> support commercial development with open source products... Which is perfectly legitimate.

You don't read the mails Austin wrote to me. But there is a big difference if you start a
conversation with a request for another license (because you want to use JRuby in a commercial
application) or with the unfounded reproach of copyright violation. And I don't think that much
open source developers are happy to share there code with you after you wrote them such mails.

I get some very friendly mails from people who want to use JRuby in commercial applications. As
a consequence I want to relase JRuby also under other licenses. Maybe it isn't professional but
I've to take the copyright laws (which exists at least here in Europe) into consideration. As 
you can read in the last post JRuby will probably be released under the LGPL in the future.


Jan Arne Petersen