License of the ruby standard library

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hi,
I am not going to ask any technical issue. What is the license that is
applied for the Ruby standard library(which is distributed with ruby
installation).

Can we redistribute it ?

thanks and regards,
buddhika

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http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/net/http/rdoc/index.html
Says:
"This program is free software. You can re-distribute and/or modify this program under the same terms of ruby itself — Ruby Distribution License or GNU General Public License."

So that would be a dual license of the Ruby Distribution License or
the GPL.

Ruby distribution license is documented in:

http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/LICENSE.txt

and the GPL 1/2 text can be found at:
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/old-licenses.html#GPL

while the GPL version 3 is at The GNU General Public License v3.0 - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation

Ron.

Thilina Buddhika wrote:

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hi,
I am not going to ask any technical issue. What is the license that is
applied for the Ruby standard library(which is distributed with ruby
installation).

Can we redistribute it ?

thanks and regards,
buddhika

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That's a sample of 1 from the components of the standard library.

There are actually a variety of licensing terms in the various pieces of ruby.

Unfortunately the picture isn't entirely clear see for example

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On Nov 16, 2007 6:10 AM, Ron Fox <fox@nscl.msu.edu> wrote:

http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/net/http/rdoc/index.html
Says:
"This program is free software. You can re-distribute and/or modify this
program under the same terms of ruby itself — Ruby Distribution License
or GNU General Public License."

So that would be a dual license of the Ruby Distribution License or
the GPL.

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