From: Christian Kaiser <chk@...>
Date: 2004-04-27T07:34:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Distributing Ruby DLL

Mark,

you're talking Outlandish here. I'm a Ruby user, not a Ruby developer :))) I
just want to incorporate Ruby as a scripting language in a (freeware) spam
processor.

I don't know Onigurama. I installed Ruby 1.6.8 and 1.8.1 (the latter DLL is
not as good as the 1.6.8 one, so I'd prefer 1.6.8). I would not like to
compile Ruby myself if I can help it. Ruby is shipped with a DLL for
Windows, and I don't know which parts are in the DLL yet.

Is that a strange question? I thought it might be quite frequent.

Christian

> > I have not found something that tells me whether I can distribute the
> > Ruby
> > DLL with a freeware of my own. Could someone please help me whether I
> > would
> > need to tell the users that they need to install the whole package, or
> > whether it's enough to include the ruby (1.8 or 1.6) DLL in my setup.
>
> The breakdown is, that you can either distribute Ruby via GPL or Ruby's
> own license, detailed in the file. IANAL, but it appears that Ruby's
> license will allow what you are wanting to do. However...
>
> IIRC, Ruby's original regexp engine is GPL'd... If, however, you
> compile it to use Onigurama instead, there should be no problem from
> that end. I think any version of Ruby 1.6.x and up can be compiled to
> use Onigurama instead of the original engine.