[Bug 470696] Review Request: rubygem-passenger - Passenger Ruby on Rails deployment system

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--- Comment #8 from Jeroen van Meeuwen <kanarip at kanarip.com>  2008-11-10 18:50:25 EDT ---
(In reply to comment #7)
> (In reply to comment #2)
>
> (...snip...)
>
> Unfortunately, there seems to be no easy way to fix Problem 2 (Problem 1 is
> easy enough to fix by the rubygem-passenger upstream). All releases of the
> mod_scgi code are under the CNRI license (although, changes made after 1.10 are
> under MIT). Some methods of fixing this issue would be:
> 
> 1. Removing all of the copied code from mod_scgi 1.09, then replacing it either
> with clean-room written code (aka, code written by someone who has never looked
> at mod_scgi) or restructuring the rubygem-passenger code so that it is not
> necessary. 
> 
> 2. Getting permission from CNRI to use that code under different (GPLv2
> compatible) terms. They seem to use MIT for changes to that codebase these
> days, perhaps they would give permission for the copied code to be used under
> those terms?
> 
> However, until this issue is resolved, this one can't go any farther, sorry.

Would another solution be to use mod_scgi >= 1.10?

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