Bug #8913
closed
Unclear licensing terms on lib/gserver.rb
Added by terceiro (Antonio Terceiro) over 10 years ago.
Updated about 10 years ago.
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.
He agreed with Ruby's license when we asked him to allow merging gserver.rb to the distribution.
We should have updated.
Matz.
- 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
- 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.
- lib/gserver.rb: [DOC] correct gserver.rb license [Bug #8913]
- Backport changed from 1.9.3: REQUIRED, 2.0.0: REQUIRED to 1.9.3: REQUIRED, 2.0.0: DONE
r42994 is backported to ruby_2_0_0 at r43060.
Backported to ruby_1_9_3 at r43489.
- Backport changed from 1.9.3: REQUIRED, 2.0.0: DONE to 1.9.3: DONE, 2.0.0: DONE
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