Hi ,
I have some questions regarding the licensing of Ruby & Ruby On
Rails . How does the licensing work in the following situations
A) I write a website using Ruby and Rails where i want to charge
customers for the service
B) I want to sell software written using Ruby and Rails to a client
C) I want to modify core Ruby code and/or extensions from what i
downloaded
In the above cases do i need to give away the software i wrote for
free (or) am i obligated to publish the
software i wrote also as open source (or) do i need to pay at any
stage ?
Thanks for your help!
On 02 May 2007, at 00:26, newcoder1 wrote:
free (or) am i obligated to publish the
software i wrote also as open source (or) do i need to pay at any
stage ?
Click through on the link located at the bottom of the Ruby on Rails
homepage:
The MIT License
Copyright ©
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the “Software”),
to deal
in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the
rights
to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or
sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
included in
all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED “AS IS”, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT
SHALL THE
AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE,
ARISING FROM,
OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER
DEALINGS IN
THE SOFTWARE.
Best regards
Peter De Berdt
Hi Peter, please be aware that changes to Ruby Core may cause issues
within
current and future releases of Rails. Thus, you’ll be reponsible for
any
changes that you make within both Rails and Ruby that have not been
integrated back into their respective cores.
Good luck,
-Conrad
Investigate Rails plugins for modifying Rails or Ruby core. It’s easy,
portable, and non-destructive.