From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2000-12-14T12:51:36+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:7191] Re: Ruby in the US

"Ben Tilly" <ben_tilly@hotmail.com> writes:

> However there is a licensing problem for Ruby.  Ruby
> contains parts (for instance regex.c) which are under the
> LGPL.  I believe that people seeking to embed a Ruby
> interpreter into other pieces of software must therefore
> do one of the following:
> 
> 1) Use Ruby (or just the parts you want to access) as
>     part of a library you link to rather than directly
>     embedding it.

Isn't this what we'd do anyway? You'd write to the interface and link
against libruby.a. I don't think you'd embed the source to embed Ruby.

Or am I missing something? It's been a while since I read the LGPL.


Dave