Bug #8913

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Unclear licensing terms on lib/gserver.rb

Added by terceiro (Antonio Terceiro) over 10 years ago. Updated about 10 years ago.

Status:

Closed

Assignee:

zzak (zzak _)

Target version:

ruby -v:

trunk

Backport:

1.9.3: DONE, 2.0.0: DONE

[ruby-core:57200]

Description

The reader of the file only says this:

Copyright (C) 2001 John W. Small All Rights Reserved¶

Author:: John W. Small¶

Documentation:: Gavin Sinclair¶

Licence:: Freeware.¶

What does "Freeware" mean? With only that said, one cannot assume that file is free software/open source.

The intention is probably to have it licensed under the same terms of the rest of Ruby, so it would be nice to change that header to not mention any explicit licensing terms (even though "Freeware" is not a proper license) so that the global licensing terms of Ruby also apply to this file.

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#1 [ruby-core:57205]

Updated by matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto) over 10 years ago

He agreed with Ruby's license when we asked him to allow merging gserver.rb to the distribution.
We should have updated.

Matz.

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#2 [ruby-core:57240]

Updated by zzak (zzak _) over 10 years ago

Category changed from lib to doc
Status changed from Open to Assigned
Assignee set to zzak (zzak _)

I will update the gserver docs to reflect the license change

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Updated by zzak (zzak _) over 10 years ago

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

This issue was solved with changeset r42994.
Antonio, thank you for reporting this issue.
Your contribution to Ruby is greatly appreciated.
May Ruby be with you.