License of the ruby standard library

[Thilina Buddhika]

hi,
I am not going to ask any technical issue. What is the license that is
applied for the Ruby standard library(which is distributed with ruby
installation).


Can we redistribute it ?


thanks and regards,
buddhika

 

[Ron Fox]

http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/net/http/rdoc/index.html
Says:
"This program is free software. You can re-distribute and/or modify this
program under the same terms of ruby itself — Ruby Distribution License
or GNU General Public License."

So that would be a dual license of the Ruby Distribution License or
the GPL.

Ruby distribution license is documented in:

http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/LICENSE.txt

and the GPL 1/2 text can be found at:
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/old-licenses.html#GPL

while the GPL version 3 is at http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html

Ron.

 

[Rick DeNatale]

http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/net/http/rdoc/index.html
Says:
"This program is free software. You can re-distribute and/or modify this
program under the same terms of ruby itself =97 Ruby Distribution License
or GNU General Public License."

So that would be a dual license of the Ruby Distribution License or
the GPL.

That's a sample of 1 from the components of the standard library.

There are actually a variety of licensing terms in the various pieces of ru=
by.

Unfortunately the picture isn't entirely clear see for example
http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/127946#570845


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Rick DeNatale

My blog on Ruby
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