Matt & Josh, thanks for your replies. I'm also not a lawyer. I like Ruby and would love to see it flourish on the Mac (and hopefully iOS one day). It would be nice if the license implications were clearer to developers. I'm not experienced with Ruby's source code. The only files which mention the GPL in LEGAL are parse.c and util.c. Is the "vanilla" MacRuby using those? If not, it seems there is no issue, but perhaps the documentation should reflect this. Thanks, Mike. On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 9:57 PM, Joshua Ballanco <jballanc@gmail.com> wrote:
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