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"CRuby is licensed under the GPL" Somebody didn't do their fact checking! From the Ruby Source (http://svn.ruby-lang.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/trunk/COPYING?revis
by jballanc 17y ago
"CRuby is licensed under the GPL"
Somebody didn't do their fact checking! From the Ruby Source (http://svn.ruby-lang.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/trunk/COPYING?revision=25184&view=markup http://svn.ruby-lang.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/trunk/COPYING?re...):
Ruby is copyrighted free software by Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@netlab.jp>.
You can redistribute it and/or modify it under either the terms of the GPL
version 2 (see the file GPL), or the conditions below
...where it then goes on to describe the conditions commonly referred to as the "Ruby License" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_License http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_License), which is half-way between a MIT/BSD style and something with explicit copyleft.
Probably the reason Microsoft didn't go directly to the MRI implementation has more to do with them wanting it to run on the CLR.