Bug #8913: Unclear licensing terms on lib/gserver.rb

• Status: Closed
• Assignee: zzak (zzak _)
• Target version: -
• ruby -v: trunk
• Backport: 1.9.3: DONE, 2.0.0: DONE

[terceiro (Antonio Terceiro)]

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.

[matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto)]

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

Matz.

[zzak (zzak _)]

• 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

[zzak (zzak _)]

• 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.

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• lib/gserver.rb: [DOC] correct gserver.rb license [Bug #8913]

[nagachika (Tomoyuki Chikanaga)]

• 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.

[usa (Usaku NAKAMURA)]

Backported to ruby_1_9_3 at r43489.

[usa (Usaku NAKAMURA)]

• Backport changed from 1.9.3: REQUIRED, 2.0.0: DONE to 1.9.3: DONE, 2.0.0: DONE