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