Re: [MacRuby-devel] GPL and the App Store

2011-10-07 Thread Mike Boone
On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 10:29 PM, Joshua Ballanco wrote: > If you look closely at the license text in parse.c there is a special > exception for programs that are not parser generators, which would cover the > use of parse.c in Ruby. As for util.c, the only section of the code > mentioning the GPL

Re: [MacRuby-devel] GPL and the App Store

2011-10-06 Thread Mike Boone
Matt & Josh, thanks for your replies. I'm also not a lawyer. I like Ruby and would love to see it flourish on the Mac (and hopefully iOS one day). It would be nice if the license implications were clearer to developers. I'm not experienced with Ruby's source code. The only files which mention the

[MacRuby-devel] GPL and the App Store

2011-10-06 Thread Mike Boone
, therefore the whole app would have to be GPL, correct? I know that others are currently selling MacRuby apps in the Mac App Store, but I would like to know more about this issue before I spend time building my app in MacRuby. Many thanks, Mike Boone. http://boonedocks.net/mike