[#154598] implementing the "each" method for own classes — Philipp Huber <huber.philipp@...>

hello!

12 messages 2005/09/01

[#154620] Word Chains (#44) — Ruby Quiz <james@...>

Gavin Kistner asked that I try timing the quiz solutions this week. I did

13 messages 2005/09/01

[#154733] Ruby-specific performance heuristics? — Hugh Sasse <hgs@...>

I've been doing some stuff with CSV recently, having data in one

15 messages 2005/09/02

[#154775] Idiomatic conversion of yielding block to array — David Brady <ruby_talk@...>

So I have a function that generates like 300 lines of text and I want to

23 messages 2005/09/02
[#154776] Re: Idiomatic conversion of yielding block to array — Levin Alexander <levin.alexander@...> 2005/09/02

David Brady <ruby_talk@shinybit.com> wrote:

[#154779] Re: Idiomatic conversion of yielding block to array — Simon Krer <SimonKroeger@...> 2005/09/02

Levin Alexander wrote:

[#154785] Re: Idiomatic conversion of yielding block to array — Simon Krer <SimonKroeger@...> 2005/09/02

Simon Krer wrote:

[#154789] Re: Idiomatic conversion of yielding block to array — Jacob Fugal <lukfugl@...> 2005/09/02

Good heavens, no! Neither of those are thread safe. Criminy!

[#154872] windows shell — Gaston Garcia <gaston.garcia@...>

Is there anyone here that uses Windows XP and uses a windows shell

28 messages 2005/09/04
[#154876] Re: windows shell — "Robert Klemme" <bob.news@...> 2005/09/04

Gaston Garcia <gaston.garcia@gmail.com> wrote:

[#154917] Re: windows shell — Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...> 2005/09/05

On 9/4/05, Robert Klemme <bob.news@gmx.net> wrote:

[#154874] params v.s. @params in rails? — "Barry" <rubyrails@...>

Both work in my controller class, so I am wondering what's the

11 messages 2005/09/04

[#154920] Help me clean up this method — "Vincent Foley" <vfoley@...>

Hello guys,

32 messages 2005/09/05

[#155018] Rake 0.6.0 Released — Jim Weirich <jim@...>

= Rake 0.6.0 Released

20 messages 2005/09/06

[#155064] Sorted arrays — <ruby@...64.com>

I'm a relative newcomer to Ruby. Most of my experience is in Delphi. And in Delphi one of the most commonly-used classes is TStringList, which is sort of analogous to ruby's Array (Delphi also has dynamic arrays and static arrays). TStringList has a property called Sorted, which if set to True makes it possible to insert strings into the list and have it maintain them as a sorted list (without having to re-sort it each time). Then you can use the IndexOf method (or the Find method) to do a binary search on the list, so you can quickly find the element you're looking for. My question is whether Ruby has anything like this. It seems like one could create a descendant of Array that does this.

18 messages 2005/09/06
[#155067] Re: Sorted arrays — "Robert Klemme" <bob.news@...> 2005/09/06

ruby@danb64.com wrote:

[#155120] Units for Ruby — "Lucas Carlson" <lucas@...>

I have also created a new library to add units to numbers in Ruby:

14 messages 2005/09/06

[#155127] Rio 0.3.4 — "rio4ruby" <rio4ruby@...>

New and Improved -- Rio 0.3.4

24 messages 2005/09/07

[#155181] Need help finding decent IDE/development environment for Windows — "Paul Dix" <paulcdix@...>

I've just started playing around with ruby on rails and by association,

41 messages 2005/09/07
[#155218] Re: Need help finding decent IDE/development environment for Windows — graham <fghfghfh@...> 2005/09/07

Paul Dix wrote:

[#155220] Re: Need help finding decent IDE/development environment for Windows — Joe Van Dyk <joevandyk@...> 2005/09/07

On 9/7/05, graham <fghfghfh@homr.vom> wrote:

[#155221] Re: Need help finding decent IDE/development environment for Windows — graham <fghfghfh@...> 2005/09/07

> You could ask them why they need all that IDE stuff for developing in Ruby.

[#155225] Re: Need help finding decent IDE/development environment for Windows — Edward Faulkner <ef@...> 2005/09/07

On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 02:36:29AM +0900, graham wrote:

[#155264] Re: Need help finding decent IDE/development environment for Windows — graham <fghfghfh@...> 2005/09/07

Edward Faulkner wrote:

[#155280] Re: Need help finding decent IDE/development environment for Windows — James Edward Gray II <james@...> 2005/09/08

On Sep 7, 2005, at 6:56 PM, graham wrote:

[#155327] general performance question — Brian Le Roy <brian@...>

I'm running top and when I run my app - I see the user CPU utilitization

15 messages 2005/09/08

[#155364] KirbyBase — rubyhacker@...

I'm posting from work, but will try to follow up in more

57 messages 2005/09/08
[#155795] Re: KirbyBase — rubyhacker@... 2005/09/12

Jamey Cribbs wrote:

[#155801] Re: KirbyBase — Jamey Cribbs <cribbsj@...> 2005/09/12

rubyhacker@gmail.com wrote:

[#155818] Re: KirbyBase — Randy Kramer <rhkramer@...> 2005/09/12

On Monday 12 September 2005 04:11 pm, Jamey Cribbs wrote:

[#155833] Re: KirbyBase — rubyhacker@... 2005/09/12

Randy Kramer wrote:

[#155836] Re: KirbyBase — Kevin Brown <blargity@...> 2005/09/12

On Monday 12 September 2005 17:06, rubyhacker@gmail.com wrote:

[#155861] Re: KirbyBase — Hal Fulton <hal9000@...> 2005/09/13

Kevin Brown wrote:

[#155873] Re: KirbyBase — Ezra Zygmuntowicz <ezra@...> 2005/09/13

[#155976] Re: KirbyBase — rubyhacker@... 2005/09/13

[#155986] Re: KirbyBase — Jamey Cribbs <cribbsj@...> 2005/09/13

rubyhacker@gmail.com wrote:

[#156005] Re: KirbyBase — Logan Capaldo <logancapaldo@...> 2005/09/13

[#156029] Re: KirbyBase [ANN (sort-of)] proof-of-concept KirbyBase ORM — Logan Capaldo <logancapaldo@...> 2005/09/14

[#155369] compiling ruby on red hat linux — "Philip J. Mikal" <philip_mikal@...>

Hi,

15 messages 2005/09/08

[#155411] Optimizing a single slow method — "Glenn M. Lewis" <noSpam@...>

Hi!

34 messages 2005/09/09
[#155474] Re: Optimizing a single slow method — Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net> 2005/09/09

On 08 Sep 2005, at 20:46, Glenn M. Lewis wrote:

[#155464] quick print type debugging — Eric Mahurin <eric_mahurin@...>

Anybody think something like this would be useful?

12 messages 2005/09/09

[#155507] Using Ruby as a preprocessor for another language — debbie@...

I have the misfortune of being stuck programming in a very bad

11 messages 2005/09/10

[#155530] Win32 gem for RMagick 1.9.1 — Timothy Hunter <cyclists@...>

Hot on the heels of the latest RMagick update, Kaspar Schiess has

15 messages 2005/09/10

[#155537] RCR to modify #puts and #print inside ERB — Gavin Kistner <gavin@...>

Proposed RCR:

26 messages 2005/09/10

[#155601] r4 - the simplest ruby pre-processor — "Ara.T.Howard" <Ara.T.Howard@...>

18 messages 2005/09/11

[#155638] The Early Demise of Myriad (Thanks To Ruby Threads) — "Zed A. Shaw" <zedshaw@...>

Hi Everyone,

17 messages 2005/09/11

[#155708] how to well-qualify the 2-inherited methods at their collision point — "SHIGETOMI, Takuhiko" <tshiget1@...>

dear guys,

10 messages 2005/09/12

[#155828] Adventures in html decoding. — Morgan <taria@...>

From the "If you want it done right, do it yourself... maybe"

16 messages 2005/09/12

[#155847] Choosing an open source license — "debbie@..." <debbie@...>

I'm working on a server program and I'm trying to decide which open

22 messages 2005/09/13

[#155941] yet another simple command-line option parser — Eric Mahurin <eric_mahurin@...>

I just put in a good example for:

11 messages 2005/09/13
[#155946] Re: yet another simple command-line option parser — Jim Freeze <jim@...> 2005/09/13

That's pretty interesting Eric, to grab the type off the default.

[#155949] Sets, uniqueness not unique. — Hugh Sasse <hgs@...>

I have been splitting a comma separated values file, and putting

29 messages 2005/09/13

[#155970] Surprising Regexp Behavior — James Edward Gray II <james@...>

I keep running into some surprising points with Ruby's Regexp engine

13 messages 2005/09/13

[#155992] Launch directory in Rake — Jim Freeze <jim@...>

Hi

15 messages 2005/09/13

[#156053] ruby and aop — Alexandru Popescu <the.mindstorm.mailinglist@...>

Hi!

12 messages 2005/09/14

[#156189] Get to the Point: Ruby and Rails Presentation Slides — "John W. Long" <ng@...>

Hi,

20 messages 2005/09/15

[#156230] you can't get in trouble with your boss for picking C# — "Phlip" <phlipcpp@...>

Rubies:

69 messages 2005/09/15
[#156549] Re: you can't get in trouble with your boss for picking C# — "ToRA" <tristan.allwood@...> 2005/09/17

Hey all,

[#156582] Re: you can't get in trouble with your boss for picking C# — Florian Gro<florgro@...> 2005/09/18

ToRA wrote:

[#156297] Re: you can't get in trouble with your boss for picking C# — "Phlip" <phlipcpp@...> 2005/09/15

klancaster1957 wrote:

[#156308] Re: you can't get in trouble with your boss for picking C# — Josh Charles <josh.charles@...> 2005/09/15

On 9/15/05, Phlip <phlipcpp@yahoo.com> wrote:

[#156248] Math: sum and faculty — Daniel Schierbeck <daniel.schierbeck@...>

I hereby propose two additions to Ruby. Please come with some comments

13 messages 2005/09/15

[#156299] MS Access — "Steve" <sdouglas949@...>

I'm considering learning Ruby. I have no programming experience yet. I was

23 messages 2005/09/15
[#156303] Re: MS Access — "Phlip" <phlipcpp@...> 2005/09/15

Steve wrote:

[#156335] Re: MS Access — Sean Armstrong <phinsxiii@...> 2005/09/15

On 9/15/05, Phlip <phlipcpp@yahoo.com> wrote:

[#156336] Re: MS Access — Sascha Ebach <se@...> 2005/09/15

Sean Armstrong wrote:

[#156347] Re: MS Access — Sean Armstrong <phinsxiii@...> 2005/09/15

Does anyone know how to install the Ruby MySQL module on a Windows platform.

[#156352] Re: MS Access — Jacob Quinn Shenker <jqshenker@...> 2005/09/15

Sean,I needed to compile/install mysql (running ./configure--without-server) from source to get the required developmentlibraries under Cygwin. (then I moved the newly-created clientbinaries out of the way so I could use the Win32-native mysqlbinaries.) After that, it worked like a charm. *Do not compile theCygwin-ized mysql client with "--with-openssl"* I don't know why, butthe gem refused to install if I did. Good luck, and let me know if yourun into any issues. Overall, developing on Cygwin for Ruby/Rails isquite nice.

[#156353] Re: MS Access — Sean Armstrong <phinsxiii@...> 2005/09/15

Let me make sure I got this right:

[#156461] Re: MS Access — Sean Armstrong <phinsxiii@...> 2005/09/16

It still refuses to find the lib and include directories even if I use the

[#156506] Re: MS Access — Jacob Quinn Shenker <jqshenker@...> 2005/09/16

Sean,I'm going to try to explain *exactly* what I did, and hopefully you'llsee something you forgot to do.1. Download mysql-essential-4.1.14-win32.msi from mysql.org and install it.2. Download mysql-4.1.13.tar.gz from mysql.org3. Extract the above, and run "./configure -C --without-server" (the-C enables config caching, I use it because the ./configure scriptruns very slowly under Cygwin. Optional, of course)4. Run "make && make install"5. Run "gem install mysql"6. Go make cool rails apps!

[#156444] Hash table questions — EdUarDo <eduardo.yanezNOSPAM@...>

Hi all,

14 messages 2005/09/16

[#156480] Some interesting criticisms of rails — David Balick <davidbalick@...>

may be found in the podcast

24 messages 2005/09/16
[#156530] Re: Some interesting criticisms of rails — "Robert Klemme" <bob.news@...> 2005/09/17

Zed A. Shaw <zedshaw@zedshaw.com> wrote:

[#156624] Language recommendations from ruby persons.... — "Greg Lorriman" <bogus@...>

Dear sirs and madames,

36 messages 2005/09/18

[#156662] Capcha in ruby — Federico <pix@...>

Hello,

23 messages 2005/09/19

[#156708] help with tricky proc/binding issue — "Ara.T.Howard" <Ara.T.Howard@...>

14 messages 2005/09/19

[#156743] The Ruby troll [was: Looking for...] — Gunnar Hjalmarsson <noreply@...>

David H. Adler wrote:

22 messages 2005/09/19

[#156749] ruby idiom for python's for/else while/else — Gergely Kontra <kgergely@...>

Hi!

18 messages 2005/09/19

[#156796] Dissident 0.1, a Ruby dependency injection container — Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@...>

Hello,

13 messages 2005/09/20
[#156797] Re: [ANN] Dissident 0.1, a Ruby dependency injection container — "Jason Voegele" <jason@...> 2005/09/20

On Tue, September 20, 2005 8:22 am, Christian Neukirchen said:

[#156801] Re: [ANN] Dissident 0.1, a Ruby dependency injection container — Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@...> 2005/09/20

"Jason Voegele" <jason@jvoegele.com> writes:

[#156966] Re: [ANN] Dissident 0.1, a Ruby dependency injection container — Logan Capaldo <logancapaldo@...> 2005/09/21

This is a little OT, but every-time dependency injection comes up I

[#156866] Places for a programmer to live? — Devin Mullins <twifkak@...>

While we seem to be rife with OT threads, I thought I'd throw in an OT

37 messages 2005/09/20

[#156933] Hello, I am a newbie to ruby. — could ildg <could.net@...>

I want learn a script language.

11 messages 2005/09/21

[#157005] Large Ruby Apps ? — "Warren Seltzer" <warrens@...>

I am coming to Ruby having used the usual list of scripting and C* languages. Since Ruby

30 messages 2005/09/21
[#158399] Re: Large Ruby Apps ? — <slonik.az@...> 2005/09/30

Very useful discussion that highlights quite few misconceptions.

[#157007] Re: Large Ruby Apps ? — "Berger, Daniel" <Daniel.Berger@...>

> -----Original Message-----

27 messages 2005/09/21

[#157051] hi, i'm new. plus one question — travis laduke <wrong@...>

I've been forced to work on some php lately and found myself

13 messages 2005/09/22

[#157063] Visual IDEs?? — "Erland" <Erland.Erikson@...>

HI,

24 messages 2005/09/22

[#157080] A question about Intelligent Systems and using Ruby — Daniel Lewis <danieljohnlewis@...>

Yesterday (21/09/2005) I sent an email to Dave Thomas (author of

16 messages 2005/09/22

[#157101] Instantiating a subclass of NilClass. — "Trans" <transfire@...>

I've subclasses NilClass, but don't know how to instantiate it. Any

16 messages 2005/09/22

[#157189] "The class that it is mixed in to..." — John Carter <john.carter@...>

Ok, so I'm documenting a Mixin.

20 messages 2005/09/23
[#157193] Re: "The class that it is mixed in to..." — William Morgan <wmorgan-ruby-talk@...> 2005/09/23

Excerpts from John Carter's mail of 22 Sep 2005 (CDT):

[#157271] Re: "The class that it is mixed in to..." — "David A. Black" <dblack@...> 2005/09/23

Hi --

[#157222] RDE 1.0.0 released — sakazuki <qzs01353@...>

Hi.

16 messages 2005/09/23

[#157299] On accidental unsubscribe messages — "Berger, Daniel" <Daniel.Berger@...>

Hi all,

15 messages 2005/09/23

[#157520] Relative speed of Ruby vs Java for a large compiled app like Freenet — seekingleverage@...

I'm wondering if anyone could shed some light on whether or not it

45 messages 2005/09/25
[#157716] Re: Relative speed of Ruby vs Java for a large compiled app like Freenet — "Isaac Gouy" <igouy@...> 2005/09/26

Martin, perhaps you could collect this stuff and put it into your wiki

[#157540] String#ggsub — Gavin Kistner <gavin@...>

I occasionally find myself with gsub regexp that either eat too much,

21 messages 2005/09/25

[#157565] Rinda frustration — Mark Volkmann <r.mark.volkmann@...>

I'm trying to determine what the methods "move" and "notify" do in the

12 messages 2005/09/26

[#157623] A big thank you to Robby Russell... — Tom Copeland <tom@...>

...for providing another RubyForge mirror via his company, PlanetArgon.

18 messages 2005/09/26
[#157770] Re: A big thank you to Robby Russell... — Gavin Kistner <gavin@...> 2005/09/27

On Sep 26, 2005, at 7:25 AM, Tom Copeland wrote:

[#157826] Re: A big thank you to Robby Russell... — Tom Copeland <tom@...> 2005/09/27

On Tue, 2005-09-27 at 12:43 +0900, Gavin Kistner wrote:

[#157864] Re: A big thank you to Robby Russell... — Sam Mayes <codeslave@...> 2005/09/27

whats the process for becomming a mirror?

[#157871] Re: A big thank you to Robby Russell... — Kirk Haines <khaines@...> 2005/09/27

On Tuesday 27 September 2005 10:24 am, Sam Mayes wrote:

[#157875] Re: A big thank you to Robby Russell... — Tom Copeland <tom@...> 2005/09/27

On Wed, 2005-09-28 at 01:38 +0900, Kirk Haines wrote:

[#157648] Rapid GUI Development with QtRuby — Dave Thomas <dave@...>

I hope y'all don't mind a short announcement, but it seemed relevant.

22 messages 2005/09/26

[#157654] Ruby Threads 101 — Ben <benbelly@...>

I am leading a peer-learning group that is using "Programming Ruby" to

13 messages 2005/09/26

[#157658] Time interval — Daniel Berger <Daniel.Berger@...>

Hi all,

20 messages 2005/09/26

[#157697] Embedded Ruby and Tag Libs — Adam Van Den Hoven <mail@...>

Hey guys,

16 messages 2005/09/26

[#157732] ShortURL 0.7.0 — "Vincent Foley" <vfoley@...>

After a lot of procrastination, I have released ShortURL 0.7.0. I

14 messages 2005/09/26

[#157746] Fwd: Lisp macros — Joe Van Dyk <joevandyk@...>

Whoops, this belongs on ruby-talk... Sorry.

47 messages 2005/09/27
[#157751] Re: Fwd: Lisp macros — James Britt <james_b@...> 2005/09/27

Joe Van Dyk wrote:

[#157779] Re: Fwd: Lisp macros — Jim Freeze <jim@...> 2005/09/27

On 9/26/05, James Britt <james_b@neurogami.com> wrote:

[#157813] Re: Fwd: Lisp macros — Ben <benbelly@...> 2005/09/27

On 9/27/05, Jim Freeze <jim@freeze.org> wrote:

[#157807] How do I (really) encrypt a string in ruby? — Michal Suchanek <hramrach@...>

Hello

10 messages 2005/09/27

[#157854] Class and Iterator Design Question — Jim Freeze <jim@...>

This may be a silly design question, but I always balk at

26 messages 2005/09/27
[#157866] Re: Class and Iterator Design Question — Bob Hutchison <hutch@...> 2005/09/27

[#157889] Re: Class and Iterator Design Question — Jim Freeze <jim@...> 2005/09/27

Wow, thanks for all the responses.

[#157893] Re: Class and Iterator Design Question — "David A. Black" <dblack@...> 2005/09/27

Hi --

[#157896] Re: Class and Iterator Design Question — Jim Freeze <jim@...> 2005/09/27

On 9/27/05, David A. Black <dblack@wobblini.net> wrote:

[#157947] Dynamically generating classes? — Jonas Galvez <jonasgalvez@...>

Hi,

15 messages 2005/09/27

[#158051] Re: creating independent lambdas in loops — "Kroeger Simon (ext)" <simon.kroeger.ext@...>

24 messages 2005/09/28
[#158057] Re: creating independent lambdas in loops — Eric Mahurin <eric_mahurin@...> 2005/09/28

--- "Kroeger Simon (ext)" <simon.kroeger.ext@siemens.com>

[#158074] Re: creating independent lambdas in loops — Gavin Kistner <gavin@...> 2005/09/28

On Sep 28, 2005, at 7:47 AM, Eric Mahurin wrote:

[#158081] Re: creating independent lambdas in loops — Eric Mahurin <eric_mahurin@...> 2005/09/28

--- Gavin Kistner <gavin@refinery.com> wrote:

[#158093] Re: creating independent lambdas in loops — Eric Mahurin <eric_mahurin@...> 2005/09/28

--- Eric Mahurin <eric_mahurin@yahoo.com> wrote:

[#158094] Re: creating independent lambdas in loops — "David A. Black" <dblack@...> 2005/09/28

Hi --

[#158096] Re: creating independent lambdas in loops — Eric Mahurin <eric_mahurin@...> 2005/09/28

--- "David A. Black" <dblack@wobblini.net> wrote:

[#158121] Python to Ruby: Two puzzlements... — "Elf M. Sternberg" <elf@...>

I'm afraid that I'm coming from Python, a B&D language where I'm used to

22 messages 2005/09/28

[#158157] IBM vs. Microsoft vs. ... Ruby? — "itsme213" <itsme213@...>

More "Enterprise Scale" talk over here, with a strong leaning towards

29 messages 2005/09/28
[#158330] Re: IBM vs. Microsoft vs. ... Ruby? — "bonefry" <bellarchitects@...> 2005/09/29

Hi,

[#158258] In your opinion.... — Daniel Lewis <danieljohnlewis@...>

In your opinion(s)....

51 messages 2005/09/29
[#158263] Re: In your opinion.... — Gennady Bystritksy <gfb@...> 2005/09/29

Daniel Lewis wrote:

[#158265] Re: In your opinion.... — Daniel Lewis <danieljohnlewis@...> 2005/09/29

> Too lazy to do your own research? It happens ;-). For a starter, check

[#158311] rush 0.1.bandicoot: object-oriented shell goodness (rationed for your health)! — The rush folks <rush-ruby-ml@...>

= rush-0.1.bandicoot

10 messages 2005/09/29

[#158327] Operator Overloading << — "matt.hulse@..." <matt.hulse@...>

Is there a way to overload '<<' in the Array class?

19 messages 2005/09/29

[#158460] Ruby licence... — netspam@...

I understand that the distribution of Ruby is under the GPL.

25 messages 2005/09/30
[#158600] Re: Ruby licence... — "Gregory Brown" <gregory.t.brown@...> 2005/10/02

The Ruby License and the License of Ruby are two different things.

[#158620] Re: Ruby licence... — Kevin Brown <blargity@...> 2005/10/02

On Saturday 01 October 2005 20:51, Gregory Brown wrote:

[#158659] Re: Ruby licence... — Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@...> 2005/10/02

Kevin Brown <blargity@gmail.com> writes:

[#158663] Re: Ruby licence... — Kevin Brown <blargity@...> 2005/10/02

On Sunday 02 October 2005 10:56, Christian Neukirchen wrote:

[#158690] Re: Ruby licence... — Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@...> 2005/10/02

Kevin Brown <blargity@gmail.com> writes:

[#158692] Re: Ruby licence... — Kevin Brown <blargity@...> 2005/10/02

On Sunday 02 October 2005 12:45, Christian Neukirchen wrote:

[#158497] Interest in Boost::Ruby — Alan Gutierrez <alan-ruby-talk@...>

I'd like to build a CSS renderer in modern C++ as an enthusist's

24 messages 2005/09/30

Re: [OT] Choosing an open source license

From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2005-09-13 21:47:08 UTC
List: ruby-talk #156012
On 9/13/05, Ara.T.Howard <Ara.T.Howard@noaa.gov> wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Sep 2005, Austin Ziegler wrote:
> > I will not use software that has this restriction. Period. Over time,
> > I will be changing my software that is stuck under the GPL to freeze
> > it at GPL2, because I believe that the Affero/GPL3 direction is going
> > to be a debacle and a mistake. I don't trust Stallman or Moglen on
> > this, because they've already made mistakes with their dicta regarding
> > dynamic linking.
> >
> > BSD is a far better choice than GNU GPL for most software, and you'll
> > note that some of the most useful GNU GPLed software has an exlusion
> > clause in any case.
> i always release my stuff under the ruby liscense - any problems with this?  i
> often don't even put my name on it because i want to encourage people to use
> it however they see fit.

No, because of the nature of dual licensing. Let me be clear -- I
don't *like* the GNU GPL, mostly because of misrepresentation by its
supporters, but it's (mostly) a fine licence for what it does. IMO,
the GNU GPL without the socialistic nonsense that Stallman put on it
would probably be even better, for what it does. The goal of the GPL
is to make it so that purely private binary releases of software don't
exist. This has nothing to do with distributing the source back to the
author (which is, IMO, the *main* problem of what the OP in this
thread wants, and is also a common misconception of GNU GPL supporters
and opponents alike), but with distributing the source to downstream
customers and not preventing *them* from doing what they wish with the
source from that point. For some types of software, this is definitely
a good thing as a licence goal.

But it most certainly isn't a "free" licence. It places heavy
restrictions on the use and distribution of the source code. This,
again, isn't a *bad* thing, it just isn't "free" (no matter how much
doublethink comes out of the FSF officies). More problematic with the
GNU GPL is the (open) question of dynamic linking, and the likely
future decision to make it so that web service accessibility is
considered distribution (like the Affero licence). Strictly speaking,
dynamic linking is a place where the law hasn't quite caught up with
(old) technology, but what little case law exists tends to suggest
that dynamic linking with something does NOT make the resulting
program a derivative of the linked software. The FSF has partially
acknowledged this with bad opinion pieces indicating that dynamically
linking a GPLed library would be unacceptable *unless an
API-compatible alternative exists* and that the GNU GPLed library
isn't distributed with the linking program. This was done because of
the licensing nonsense around GNU readline. Unfortunately for the FSF,
dynamic linking has grown *way* beyond this.

Stallman is on record as having indicated that it is improper for
users of PhotoShop to use GNU GPLed PhotoShop filters, or GIMP users
(which implements the same ABI/API) to use non-GNU GPLed filters.
Sadly, not only is he wrong in fact, he is wrong by his own licence,
which is triggered not by use[1] but by distribution. Hence the
redefinition of distribution in the Affero licence, because
redefinition of use would make the Affero licence wholly incompatible
with the GNU GPL.

This whole discussion affects users of modern programming languages
(Java, C# -- the whole of .NET in fact, Ruby, Python, Perl, etc.)
extensively because one can end up using software without being fully
aware of its licensing heritage -- in some cases, even loading code
from across the network. I can't begin to express how horrendously
naive (or, conversely, how horrendously sinister) the FSF position on
this is, because it makes a mockery of the very idea of replaceable
component development.

This is one of the reasons that, when I have included others works in
my own (Text::Hyphen, PDF::Writer, Ruwiki, and a couple of others), I
make it clear that *my* software is under a particular licence,
*their* software is under a particular licence, and the *compilation*
is under a particular licence. The three licences must be compatible
(in most cases, this isn't a problem, as I choose less-restrictive
licences than the GNU GPL). I also make sure that I give credit --
which is why I'd disagree with your decision to not put your name on
your releases. I have also gone out of my way to fix licensing issues
with software that I release. Diff::LCS exists *solely* because the
original porter of Algorithm::Diff chose the more restrictive licence
(it was under Perl's and the GNU GPL; the porter chose only the GNU
GPL) and that was incompatible with the licence chosen for Ruwiki by
Alan and I. I happen to think that Diff::LCS is far better than
Algorithm::Diff, but I lost a month's worth of work on Ruwiki directly
because of that reality.

As I mentioned at the top, dual licensing is an interesting beast.
When I have licensed something under multiple licenses, all of the
chosen licences apply, but not simultaneously. If you release
something under the GNU GPL or the Ruby licence, the recipient can
choose *either* licence to obey. So if someone decided to fork your
software, they could choose to make it GNU GPL only if they so decide.
They aren't bound by your dual licence choice, ironically.

I encourage Ruby developers to avoid the GNU GPL as their sole
licence, because it makes for legal incompatibilities where legal
incompatibilities do not exist.

-austin
[1] This is one of the things that thoroughly pisses me off about the
morons who use NSIS or other Windows install kits and put the GNU GPL
as a EULA. The GNU GPL isn't a EULA, and I don't have to accept it
just to be able to use your program.
-- 
Austin Ziegler * halostatue@gmail.com
               * Alternate: austin@halostatue.ca


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