# Contacting Toshi Hirooka (tosik) about using Rulang

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/contacting-toshi-hirooka-tosik-about-using-rulang/125065>\
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**Created:** [January 4, 2008, 11:29pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/contacting-toshi-hirooka-tosik-about-using-rulang/125065 "2008-01-04T23:29:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![Chuck\_V](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/87869e/32.png) [@Chuck\_V](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Chuck_V)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2008, 11:29pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/contacting-toshi-hirooka-tosik-about-using-rulang/125065/1 "2008-01-04T23:29:21Z")

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I’m going to be using RulangBridge by Toshi Hirooka (tosik) in my  
project but I can’t get ahold of him/her to ascertain licensing  
permissions. If anyone knows tosik or can speak/read enough japanese  
to find an email address I would be most grateful as I have a few  
patches and a gem to contribute to the community as soon as I know  
whether it’s okay or not.

The original page is at [Google Code Archive - Long-term storage for Google Code Project Hosting.](http://code.google.com/p/rulangbridge/) and  
I’ve sent an email to removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid hoping that his username  
is the same as him email but I’ve not gotten a response. I’m not sure  
if this is because it’s not the correct email or because he doesn’t  
speak English or something else.

Any advice or help is appreciated,  
Sincerely,  
Chuck V.

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**Author:** ![Chuck\_V](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/87869e/32.png) [@Chuck\_V](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Chuck_V)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2008, 11:54pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/contacting-toshi-hirooka-tosik-about-using-rulang/125065/2 "2008-01-04T23:54:31Z")

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On Jan 4, 2008, at 4:28 PM, Chuck V. wrote:

> if this is because it’s not the correct email or because he doesn’t  
> speak English or something else.
> 
> Any advice or help is appreciated,  
> Sincerely,  
> Chuck V.

Looks like the last update to that wiki was May 23rd, so it may be  
languishing forgotten.  
You might just try joining the project and see if you get a response,  
but you might need a little Japanese skill for communication…

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**Author:** ![Chuck\_V](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/87869e/32.png) [@Chuck\_V](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Chuck_V)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2008, 12:40am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/contacting-toshi-hirooka-tosik-about-using-rulang/125065/3 "2008-01-05T00:40:14Z")

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> Looks like the last update to that wiki was May 23rd, so it may be  
> languishing forgotten.  
> You might just try joining the project and see if you get a response,  
> but you might need a little Japanese skill for communication…

Thanks for the advice. This project requires that the owner add me to  
the list of maintainers so I have to find a way to contact him first.  
My current hope is that it really is GPL2 as the Google page suggests  
in which case I can just fork and be happy. But the code lacks any  
mention of the GPL so I’m a little worried.

It’s not something that really matters, but I would hate for people to  
start using the code only to find out that it was actually copyright  
by someone. I suppose in that case we could always just reprogram it.

Thanks again for the advice,  
Chuck V.