License policy for RubyOperatingSystem

[Simon Strandgaard]

We are planning to make a Ruby Operating System (ROS),
http://ros.rubyforge.org/

We have some concerns about which license policy we should choose,
OSI compatibility.. I am no expert on this.

Any advices/hints/opinions are appreciated ?

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Simon Strandgaard


citing discussion between shasckaw and me:

You seems to be much more into licenses than what I am.
I am really bad at reading licenses because English are not my native
language. They trend to use different terminology than what I am
familiar with.

If you think you have a good understanding of licenses, then you should
decide ROS'es license scheme.

Glups.
My mother tongue is not english either, it is french (I live in belgium)
And I'm not lawyer at all.
And determining a license scheme is a truly hard thing, we must have a
really clear idea of the organisation of Ros.

What I know about licenses tell me that their use is easy when you just
use one license with no third party code with different license, and
their use is headache when you want to use multiple licensing or when
you want to keep the copyright. And you can rapidly use multiple
licensing just when using third party code.

How can we know how to do?
Well, what about asking FSF or OSI about the compatibility of Ruby
license with GPL and others?

 

[Paul William]

Make it was same as ruby.

We are planning to make a Ruby Operating System (ROS),
http://ros.rubyforge.org/

We have some concerns about which license policy we should choose,
OSI compatibility.. I am no expert on this.

Any advices/hints/opinions are appreciated ?

--
Simon Strandgaard


citing discussion between shasckaw and me:


Glups.
My mother tongue is not english either, it is french (I live in belgium)
And I'm not lawyer at all.
And determining a license scheme is a truly hard thing, we must have a
really clear idea of the organisation of Ros.

What I know about licenses tell me that their use is easy when you just
use one license with no third party code with different license, and
their use is headache when you want to use multiple licensing or when
you want to keep the copyright. And you can rapidly use multiple
licensing just when using third party code.

How can we know how to do?
Well, what about asking FSF or OSI about the compatibility of Ruby
license with GPL and others?

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.''`. Paul William
: :' : Debian admin and user
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`- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system

 

[Simon Strandgaard]

Make it was same as ruby.

That were also my initial idea, but as Shasckaw points out,
the Ruby license are not present neither at
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html

nor at
http://www.opensource.org/licenses/


Is Ruby License OSI compatible ?