From: Jan Arne Petersen <jpetersen@...>
Date: 2002-09-09T05:09:34+09:00
Subject: Re: JRuby (was Re: OS-independent build of ruby)

On Sun, 08 Sep 2002 18:25:39 +0000, Dave Thomas wrote:

Hi Dave,

> "Jan Arne Petersen" <jpetersen@uni-bonn.de> writes:
> 
>> 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.
> 
> I agree that the original e-mail might have been somewhat too aggressive. Assuming that no original
> licenses are broken, you clearly have the right to use whatever license you want for JRuby. I
> respect your flexibility at adding the LGPL in to the mix.

To understand that I am annoyed you should know that Austin wrote me some very aggressive private
mails. (Normally I wouldn't mention private mails but he starts the public discussion)

> Personally, I dislike releasing under the (L)GPL. I write software for other people to use. I would
> encourage the JRuby folks to spend time considering the downsides of a more liberal license (and I'd
> be happy to discuss this off-list with them if they wanted), but I'd defend their right to use any
> licensing terms they can legally use.

Personally, I would release JRuby under an Apache like license but it isn't a question of my
opinion. Also it isn't only a question of the present JRuby team because there are past contributors
to the JRuby project which don't support such a license. Currently we don't have the resources to
replace their code.
We should also discuss about this license changing problem and how we could prevent it in the future.

Regards
	Jan Arne