[MacRuby-devel] GPL and the App Store

[Mike Boone]

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 at 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