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Read and cache Ruby source-code file information
GNU General Public License v2.0
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Linecache as GPL #2

Open mreider opened 12 years ago

mreider commented 12 years ago

Hi there,

We are trying to keep everything as BSD / MIT / Apache 2.0

Curious why you chose GPL and if we could have a different license file instead? Ryan Davis' ParseTree is MIT.

Thanks!

-Matt

rocky commented 12 years ago

Who is "we"? And why does it matter whether or not GPL is included to the licenses you list?

GPL is a reasonable license and suitable for my needs.

mreider commented 12 years ago

Sorry, I should have written a more detailed question. I work for VMWare, and we are open sourcing a large project called Cloud Foundry, which is available for download here on Github, and also available as a service at cloudfoundry.com. We have a number of participants, including people in industry, academia, and government.

We have chosen to license our software under Apache v.2, which is incompatible with GPL v.2. as you can read here: http://www.apache.org/licenses/GPL-compatibility.html

Thank you for your consideration.

Matt

mreider commented 12 years ago

If MIT or Apache is not your preference, the Ruby license offers both GPL, and Apache compatible terms.

http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/LICENSE.txt

Thanks again.