On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 4:36 PM, Dwayne Litzenberger <dl...@infonium.ca> wrote:
> The addition of ruby-debug, with linecache.rb and the "columnize" gem (which
> are both distributed only under the GPL) took us by surprise. We could
> easily have missed it, which is a bit scary for us. I'm currently hacking
> our build scripts to repack our .war files and remove these libraries from
> jruby-stdlib-1.5.1.jar after Warbler is finished running, but I'm worried
> about our ability to track future releases of JRuby.
>
> Before 1.5.0, JRuby was distributed under a weak copyleft license. Would it
> be possible for the JRuby team to release JRuby 1.5.2 without ruby-debug or
> columnize (or any other code under a strong copyleft), and to assure us that
> future versions will remain under weak copyleft?
I'll put my position this way: I hate all the licensing stuff. We
added ruby-debug because it was a pain to install and we kept getting
support questions about it. The licensing, unfortunately, never even
entered into my mind :(
If it's pretty clear-cut which libraries we should or should not
distribute, we can make adjustments to the distribution so that things
are more clear-cut. We have desired to make our licensing easier to
understand, but given the fact that most OSS projects are themselves
hard-to-understand, it's a complicated task. Can you spell out what
would make you comfortable to redistribute JRuby?
- Charlie
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