[BioRuby] License

Zagato zagato.gekko at gmail.com
Fri Mar 30 16:41:25 UTC 2007


Thanks for the comments about my question, i think now that Ruby's License
it's a good choice :D!!!

Bye

Alan Jairo Acosta
Cali - Colombia

On 3/30/07, Trevor Wennblom <trevor at corevx.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Mar 29, 2007, at 11:32 PM, Toshiaki Katayama wrote:
>
> > Advantage:
> > * we (developers and users) can be free from this kind of boring
> > comparison. :)
> >
> > Disadvantage:
> > * none.
>
>
> Just about to go to bed so this will be brief.
>
> The biggest advantage to moving to the Ruby license, which is
> essentially the MIT license,[1] is that is compatible with Ruby
> itself.  What an honor it would be - though not necessarily desired -
> to be included in the main Ruby package itself as a standard
> library.  The least we can do is acknowledge the word "Ruby" is
> itself in the name of the project.
>
> Let us not forget that the Ruby license is completely compatible with
> the GPL according to the Free Software Foundation.[2]
>
> Trevor
>
> [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_License
> [2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_License
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ruby << __EOF__
  puts [ 111, 116, 97, 103, 97, 90 ].collect{|v| v.chr}.join.reverse
__EOF__



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