From: Daniel Carrera <dcarrera@...>
Date: 2003-11-17T12:43:08+09:00
Subject: Re: regexp unlimited: Ruby's vs Oniguruma

Isn't Ruby a dual license?  AFAIK Ruby can be used in propietary software (don't 
say "commercial", say "propietary", there's a difference, MySQL is commercial and 
GPL).

On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 10:55:40AM +0900, Simon Strandgaard wrote:
> AFAIK Ruby's regexp engine is somewhat limited:
> *  GPL, restricts commercial use.
> *  i18n, cannot operate on UCS-4.
> *  input, no stream-iterators, only String class.
> 
> 
> What are the limits of Oniguruma ?
> 
> How should your Ruby regexp engine be like ?
> 
> 
> --
> Simon Strandgaard

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