Bug #10952: Clarify BigDecimal license

• Status: Closed
• Assignee: mrkn (Kenta Murata)
• Target version: -
• ruby -v: trunk
• Backport: 2.0.0: WONTFIX, 2.1: DONE, 2.2: DONE

[vo.x (Vit Ondruch)]

The README [1] says:

You can redistribute it and/or modify it under either the terms of the GPL
(see COPYING file), or the conditions below:

So it is GPL or Ruby license. Nevertheless, the file headers [2, 3] says something different while referring back to the README.:

* You may distribute under the terms of either the GNU General Public
* License or the Artistic License, as specified in the README file
* of this BigDecimal distribution.

Could you please clarify the licenses?

[1] https://github.com/ruby/ruby/blob/trunk/ext/bigdecimal/README#L5
[2] https://github.com/ruby/ruby/blob/trunk/ext/bigdecimal/bigdecimal.c#L7
[3] https://github.com/ruby/ruby/blob/trunk/ext/bigdecimal/bigdecimal.h#L7

[mrkn (Kenta Murata)]

• Assignee set to mrkn (Kenta Murata)

[mrkn (Kenta Murata)]

• Status changed from Open to Assigned

[zzak (zzak _)]

Can we just add it to the gemspec?

[vo.x (Vit Ondruch)]

Stating something in .gemspec which is not aligned with the rest of files does not help.

[mrkn (Kenta Murata)]

I want to change BigDeciaml's licence to the same license of Ruby.
Now I'm contacting to the original author of BigDecimal.

[mrkn (Kenta Murata)]

• Status changed from Assigned to Closed
• % Done changed from 0 to 100

Applied in changeset r50185.

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• bigdecimal: conform to ruby's license. [ruby-core:68466] [Bug #10952]

[mrkn (Kenta Murata)]

Shigeo, original author of BigDecimal, allows me to change BigDecimal's license to ruby's.
I'd already changed it.

[vo.x (Vit Ondruch)]

Thanks a lot. Can this be backported or not?

[usa (Usaku NAKAMURA)]

• Backport changed from 2.0.0: UNKNOWN, 2.1: UNKNOWN, 2.2: UNKNOWN to 2.0.0: WONTFIX, 2.1: REQUIRED, 2.2: REQUIRED

[usa (Usaku NAKAMURA)]

• Backport changed from 2.0.0: WONTFIX, 2.1: REQUIRED, 2.2: REQUIRED to 2.0.0: WONTFIX, 2.1: DONE, 2.2: REQUIRED

ruby_2_1 r50574 merged revision(s) 50185.

[nagachika (Tomoyuki Chikanaga)]

• Backport changed from 2.0.0: WONTFIX, 2.1: DONE, 2.2: REQUIRED to 2.0.0: WONTFIX, 2.1: DONE, 2.2: DONE

Backported into ruby_2_2 branch at r50622.