[MacRuby-devel] GPL and the App Store

[Joshua Ballanco]

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/
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