Hi Mike, I am also not a lawyer, but it is worth noting that the Ruby license is a dual license, with one part being the GPL and the other being a slightly relaxed version of the BSD 2-clause license. That said, there are a few libraries which can be *optionally* compiled in with Ruby (e.g. readline) which *are* GPL'd, but if you have a vanilla build/install of MacRuby, these also shouldn't be a concern.
It is also worth noting that there are already a number of MacRuby apps in the Mac OS app store. Cheers, Josh On Thursday, October 6, 2011 at 9:17 PM, Mike Boone wrote: > Hi all, > > I would like to build a MacRuby app to sell on the Mac App Store. > However, I am concerned about the GPL license on some of the MacRuby > source code, given what happened to VLC on the iOS App Store. > > I have googled around and the only discussion I could find on this > topic was a brief page at Stack Exchange, which did not have a > conclusive answer. > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7028270/license-of-macruby > > Reading LEGAL in the MacRuby distribution is confusing. It would seem > that all the listed licenses apply if these files are all compiled > into MacRuby. One of the files is GPL, therefore the whole app would > have to be GPL, correct? > > I know that others are currently selling MacRuby apps in the Mac App > Store, but I would like to know more about this issue before I spend > time building my app in MacRuby. > > Many thanks, > Mike Boone. > http://boonedocks.net/mike/ > _______________________________________________ > MacRuby-devel mailing list > MacRuby-devel@lists.macosforge.org (mailto:MacRuby-devel@lists.macosforge.org) > http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macruby-devel
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