From: Mark Hubbart <discord@...>
Date: 2004-04-27T16:28:23+09:00
Subject: Re: Distributing Ruby DLL


On Apr 26, 2004, at 3:34 PM, Christian Kaiser wrote:

> 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.

Ahhh :) sorry. Didn't mean to speak Outlandish to you ;)

> 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.

Never seen it here before, but it's not a strange question either.

<IANAL>
Checking it out again, Ruby's regexp engine is LGPL(Library GNU Public 
License), not GPL. This should mean that it is safe for distribution as 
a dll. So, yes, you can distribute it. Just make sure to put a link to 
the ruby website, where they can download ruby's source code. That 
should do it.
</IANAL>

cheers,
--Mark