# Licenses and doing the right thing

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/licenses-and-doing-the-right-thing/109939>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [July 20, 2007, 1:54pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/licenses-and-doing-the-right-thing/109939 "2007-07-20T13:54:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![rickf](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/9e8a1a/32.png) [@rickf](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rickf)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2007, 1:54pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/licenses-and-doing-the-right-thing/109939/1 "2007-07-20T13:54:29Z")

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Hi all,

There are appear to be several licenses available for ROR, Ruby etc so  
any guidance is appreciated. I did search on the topic and seemed to get  
a variety of answers…some conflicting. My original read on my  
situation was I within the guidelines of the the agreement, but I am no  
lawyer.

I am currently developing a commercial application with ROR that I would  
like to have packaged up and distributed with my code. So I hope to  
ship:

- Ruby (binaries for Windows / Linux)
- ROR and associated code
- standard Gems
- Mongrel or webrick
- Lighttpd or Apache

None of the Ruby / ROR code is modified in any way ( it just works so  
darn well ).

So, can I ship this without stepping on anyone’s toes? By displaying the  
license agreement etc is that truly enough?

I am looking to do the right thing, any comments are greatly  
appreciated.

Thanks,  
Rick