From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2004-01-01T01:02:20+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby-dev summary 22273-22434(GPL misconceptions)

Hi,

In message "Re: ruby-dev summary 22273-22434(GPL misconceptions)"
    on 04/01/01, Asfand Yar Qazi <im_not_giving_it_here@i_hate_spam.com> writes:

|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...

No and no.  The current Ruby contains a component (regex engine) under
LGPL, which requires you to allow re-linking new version of the
component.  Dynamic linking or providing compiled object files of your
program will do.  It's completely legal not to publish your own source
code linked with Ruby.

							matz.