From: Anders Bengtsson <ndrsbngtssn@...>
Date: 2002-09-09T23:47:48+09:00
Subject: Re: JRuby (was Re: OS-independent build of ruby)

Austin Ziegler wrote:

> I think it's an interesting question, and I'll definitely be
> forwarding on any answer that I get to the question -- but I think
> that the resolution is to give JRuby a better licence. As I've said,
> I think that the LGPL is a better choice than the GPL, especially
> for working in a Java environment (or possibly in a .NET environment
> if it's ported later).

I haven't looked too much into .NET, but it would sure be nice if JRuby
could be useful for a port. At the very least there should be possible
to share ruby-in-ruby implementations for the ports. The MetaRuby
project have already done some really interesting work in this area.

> The latter make sense, but it still seems strange to me that a bit
> more effort wasn't made to make sure that item was available under a
> more liberal licence (even the LGPL) in the first place, which would
> have freed up the choices for the rest of the developers. Of course,
> such effort could have been made and I simply don't know about it.

Yes, much effort *has* been made. You didn't know about it since you
didn't ask.

/Anders

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