From: Asfand Yar Qazi <im_not_giving_it_here@..._hate_spam.com>
Date: 2004-01-01T00:51:47+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby-dev summary 22273-22434(GPL misconceptions)

Simon Strandgaard wrote:
> On Wed, 31 Dec 2003 17:10:52 +0900, Austin Ziegler wrote:
> [snip] 
> 
>>As far as replacing the regex engine, I'd actually love to see some
>>of the proposals for Perl 6 Regexen implemented for Ruby 2.0 to
>>remove some of the places that are needlessly complex and confusing.
> 
> 
> 
> I am working on a regexp engine written entirely in Ruby. My friend Mark
> Sparshatt are working on a perl6 parser for it. When I am done
> implementing a more efficient scanner routine, I will look into the perl6
> parser also.
> 
> It will be able to support a wide range of inputs formats, because it
> internally uses iterators.
> 
> http://raa.ruby-lang.org/list.rhtml?name=regexp
> 
> BTW: license=Ruby's
> 
> --
> Simon Strandgaard

Uhhh.... does this mean that I can't make a closed-source game that uses 
Ruby for scripting?  (I'm talking maybe 10 years from now, when I have 
my own company.)  The game engine would be a ruby extension, and the 
'normal' ruby interpreter would run scripts that interface with it. 
Would this therefore be illegal?  Uh-ho...




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