Thanks for the footwork on this Ketan :) Licensing is the suckiest, scariest, most annoying aspect of OSS, but hopefully we're trending toward clarity and away from confusion. If you ask me, I can't imagine there's a project in the world without some questionable content, and I wish we could all just forget about lawyers and licenses and act like mature OSS adults :)
On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 11:27 AM, Ketan Padegaonkar <ketanpadegaon...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 6/5/10 8:04 PM, Thomas E Enebo wrote: >> >> ruby-debug-base is not neccesary for JRuby >> functioning so it is an external add-on. So my argument is that our >> src and bin releases of JRuby is a full distribution akin to a Linux >> distro. Maybe we just need to list this with all our other licenses >> we list at the top? > > This does sounds like a good argument :) > >> The fact that the gem itself has a violation is something that should >> be addressed. Has anyone contacted maintainers of jruby-debug-base? >> We should do due dilligence and get them to correct the issue. > > I've opened > http://rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=28278&group_id=3085&atid=11903 > >> For what it is worth I think we can hack out an API-compatible >> linecache in a few hours if anyone has the time? Can someone do a >> rainy Saturday project and contribute back a non-GPL linecache to this >> gem (the API looks pretty small)? You would be a hero and get a beer >> from me the next time I see you.... > > I'll see if I can squash this in a couple of days and file a patch upstream. > > -- > Ketan > http://ketan.padegaonkar.name | http://eclipse.org/swtbot > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from this list, please visit: > > http://xircles.codehaus.org/manage_email > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, please visit: http://xircles.codehaus.org/manage_email
