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.
Thanks for your work on this...we want to be the best OSS folks we can be, but the project is big enough where it helps to have more people periodically look through things. I glanced at the source of cacheline a little bit and it looks like it will be a fun thing to rewrite. -Tom -- blog: http://blog.enebo.com twitter: tom_enebo mail: tom.en...@gmail.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, please visit: http://xircles.codehaus.org/manage_email
