Asp Forum - Is license of gserver.rb in Ruby package "freeware"?? Thanks.

XiaoLiang Liu

3/21/2008 1:41:00 AM

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Hello,

I found that in Ruby package there's a file named gserver.rb, the licence of
which is "freeware". I searched freeware licence on internet, but I didn't
find the content of the licence.

Does anyone know freeware licence? Thanks a lot.

Here's the header of gserver.rb
--------------------------------------------------------------
#
# Copyright (C) 2001 John W. Small All Rights Reserved
#
# Author:: John W. Small
# Documentation:: Gavin Sinclair
# Licence:: Freeware.
#
# See the class GServer for documentation.
#

6 Answers

darren kirby

3/21/2008 4:17:00 AM

quoth the XiaoLiang Liu:
> Hello,
>
> I found that in Ruby package there's a file named gserver.rb, the licence
> of which is "freeware". I searched freeware licence on internet, but I
> didn't find the content of the licence.
>
> Does anyone know freeware licence? Thanks a lot.
>
> Here's the header of gserver.rb
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> #
> # Copyright (C) 2001 John W. Small All Rights Reserved
> #
> # Author:: John W. Small
> # Documentation:: Gavin Sinclair
> # Licence:: Freeware.
> #
> # See the class GServer for documentation.
> #

I believe in this context it is the same as saying 'free as in beer, but _not_
free as in speech, though, I am not a lawyer, and am not an expert on
software licensing.

Perhaps this link from wikipedia may help:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wik....

FWIW your best bet is to try to contact the author himself directly to enquire
about its terms of use.

-d
--
darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badco...
"...the number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected..."
- Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, June 1972

Avdi Grimm

3/21/2008 5:27:00 PM

On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 12:16 AM, darren kirby <bulliver@badcomputer.org> wrote:
> I believe in this context it is the same as saying 'free as in beer, but _not_
> free as in speech, though, I am not a lawyer, and am not an expert on
> software licensing.

That could be a problem, considering GServer is part of the core Ruby
distribution which is ostensibly all under the Ruby license.

--
Avdi

darren kirby

3/21/2008 6:22:00 PM

quoth the Avdi Grimm:
> On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 12:16 AM, darren kirby <bulliver@badcomputer.org>
wrote:
> > I believe in this context it is the same as saying 'free as in beer, but
> > _not_ free as in speech, though, I am not a lawyer, and am not an expert
> > on software licensing.
>
> That could be a problem, considering GServer is part of the core Ruby
> distribution which is ostensibly all under the Ruby license.

Ahh, I wasn't aware it was core Ruby. I am also not aware if code accepted to
the core distribution implicitly becomes licensed under the 'Ruby' license.
Perhaps gserver.rb needs to be updated...

-d
--
darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badco...
"...the number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected..."
- Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, June 1972

XiaoLiang Liu

3/24/2008 1:25:00 AM

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Yes, since gserver.rb is part of ruby core, I think it might need be
updated.

On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 2:22 AM, darren kirby <bulliver@badcomputer.org>
wrote:

> quoth the Avdi Grimm:
> > On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 12:16 AM, darren kirby <bulliver@badcomputer.org
> >
> wrote:
> > > I believe in this context it is the same as saying 'free as in beer,
> but
> > > _not_ free as in speech, though, I am not a lawyer, and am not an
> expert
> > > on software licensing.
> >
> > That could be a problem, considering GServer is part of the core Ruby
> > distribution which is ostensibly all under the Ruby license.
>
> Ahh, I wasn't aware it was core Ruby. I am also not aware if code accepted
> to
> the core distribution implicitly becomes licensed under the 'Ruby'
> license.
> Perhaps gserver.rb needs to be updated...
>
> -d
> --
> darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badco...
> "...the number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more
> expected..."
> - Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, June 1972
>
>

XiaoLiang Liu

3/24/2008 1:32:00 AM

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anyway, does anyone know the email of the author John W. Small?
Thanks.

On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 9:25 AM, XiaoLiang Liu <liuxlsh@gmail.com> wrote:

> Yes, since gserver.rb is part of ruby core, I think it might need be
> updated.
>
> On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 2:22 AM, darren kirby <bulliver@badcomputer.org>
> wrote:
>
> > quoth the Avdi Grimm:
> > > On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 12:16 AM, darren kirby <
> bulliver@badcomputer.org
> > >
> > wrote:
> > > > I believe in this context it is the same as saying 'free as in
> beer,
> > but
> > > > _not_ free as in speech, though, I am not a lawyer, and am not an
> > expert
> > > > on software licensing.
> > >
> > > That could be a problem, considering GServer is part of the core Ruby
> > > distribution which is ostensibly all under the Ruby license.
> >
> > Ahh, I wasn't aware it was core Ruby. I am also not aware if code
> accepted
> > to
> > the core distribution implicitly becomes licensed under the 'Ruby'
> > license.
> > Perhaps gserver.rb needs to be updated...
> >
> > -d
> > --
> > darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badco...
> > "...the number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more
> > expected..."
> > - Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, June 1972
> >
> >
>

XiaoLiang Liu

3/26/2008 1:36:00 AM

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Does anyone know email of the author John W. Small?
Thanks.

On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 9:32 AM, XiaoLiang Liu <liuxlsh@gmail.com> wrote:

> anyway, does anyone know the email of the author John W. Small?
> Thanks.
>
> On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 9:25 AM, XiaoLiang Liu <liuxlsh@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Yes, since gserver.rb is part of ruby core, I think it might need be
> > updated.
> >
> > On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 2:22 AM, darren kirby <bulliver@badcomputer.org>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > quoth the Avdi Grimm:
> > > > On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 12:16 AM, darren kirby <
> > bulliver@badcomputer.org
> > > >
> > > wrote:
> > > > > I believe in this context it is the same as saying 'free as in
> > beer,
> > > but
> > > > > _not_ free as in speech, though, I am not a lawyer, and am not an
> > > expert
> > > > > on software licensing.
> > > >
> > > > That could be a problem, considering GServer is part of the core
> Ruby
> > > > distribution which is ostensibly all under the Ruby license.
> > >
> > > Ahh, I wasn't aware it was core Ruby. I am also not aware if code
> > accepted
> > > to
> > > the core distribution implicitly becomes licensed under the 'Ruby'
> > > license.
> > > Perhaps gserver.rb needs to be updated...
> > >
> > > -d
> > > --
> > > darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 ::
> http://badco...
> > > "...the number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more
> > > expected..."
> > > - Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, June 1972
> > >
> > >
> >
>

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Is license of gserver.rb in Ruby package "freeware"?? Thanks.

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