[Rubycocoa-talk] proposal to re-license of RubyCocoa

[FUJIMOTO H. <hi...@fo...>]

hi folks,

I (Fujimoto Hisa, the original author of RubyCocoa) have a plan to
re-license of RubyCocoa about future release.

current licence     : LGPL
future licence      : Ruby's (dual-licnese with LGPL)
re-licensing timing : appropriate timing after building consensus on
                      this (2006.4.1)

If you (as an RubyCocoa contributor) cannot accept this re-licensing
by some reason, please tell me your intention by email to this mailing
list or me.  When there will be no disagreement about this until
0:00GMT of April 1 2006,
the re-licensing will be accepted.  I hope all of you will accept it.

[the background about the re-licensing]

I got an email from an Apple's person a few weeks ago:

  "We (Apple) are interested in including RubyCocoa in a future
  release of Mac OS X. However, the LGPL presents problems for some
  developers who would like to use RubyCocoa to develop their own
  applications.  Would it be possible to relicense RubyCocoa under a
  different license?"

It's the purpose of the re-licensing. It will make distribution of a
software which depends on RubyCocoa easily for some developers.
hope again all of you will accept this.

thanks,
--
hisa