[Bug 220683] Review Request: rubygems - the Ruby standard for packaging ruby libraries

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Summary: Review Request: rubygems - the Ruby standard for packaging ruby libraries


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=220683





------- Additional Comments From dlutter at redhat.com  2007-01-05 20:34 EST -------
(In reply to comment #5)

> Correct... my concern isn't that the license text isn't included, it's that
> there is nothing at all in the package referring to what the license _is_.
> Everything says 'see LICENSE.txt'.
> 
> Not to say that it would happen, but they could ship a LICENSE.txt in the next
> release that was not acceptable for extras, and say 'Thats what we always meant". 

Ok, now I understand the concern; the actual LICENSE.txt file is in their
subversion repo [1] and starts by saying
<quote>
RubyGems is copyrighted free software by Chad Fowler, Rich Kilmer, Jim
Weirich and others.  You can redistribute it and/or modify it under
either the terms of the GPL (see COPYING.txt file), or the conditions
below: ...
</quote>

Does that address the concerns around the official license ?

[1]
http://rubyforge.org/viewvc/trunk/LICENSE.txt?revision=1060&root=rubygems&view=markup

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