3 This is the old version of the Ruby license which was used up until the release
4 of the 1.9.3 version of the MRI Ruby interpreter. The URL below now points to
5 the new version of the license, called 'Ruby-BSD' in Gentoo.
9 http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/LICENSE.txt
11 Ruby is copyrighted free software by Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@netlab.co.jp>.
12 You can redistribute it and/or modify it under either the terms of the GPL
13 (see COPYING.txt file), or the conditions below:
15 1. You may make and give away verbatim copies of the source form of the
16 software without restriction, provided that you duplicate all of the
17 original copyright notices and associated disclaimers.
19 2. You may modify your copy of the software in any way, provided that
20 you do at least ONE of the following:
22 a) place your modifications in the Public Domain or otherwise
23 make them Freely Available, such as by posting said
24 modifications to Usenet or an equivalent medium, or by allowing
25 the author to include your modifications in the software.
27 b) use the modified software only within your corporation or
30 c) rename any non-standard executables so the names do not conflict
31 with standard executables, which must also be provided.
33 d) make other distribution arrangements with the author.
35 3. You may distribute the software in object code or executable
36 form, provided that you do at least ONE of the following:
38 a) distribute the executables and library files of the software,
39 together with instructions (in the manual page or equivalent)
40 on where to get the original distribution.
42 b) accompany the distribution with the machine-readable source of
45 c) give non-standard executables non-standard names, with
46 instructions on where to get the original software distribution.
48 d) make other distribution arrangements with the author.
50 4. You may modify and include the part of the software into any other
51 software (possibly commercial). But some files in the distribution
52 are not written by the author, so that they are not under this terms.
54 They are gc.c(partly), utils.c(partly), regex.[ch], st.[ch] and some
55 files under the ./missing directory. See each file for the copying
58 5. The scripts and library files supplied as input to or produced as
59 output from the software do not automatically fall under the
60 copyright of the software, but belong to whomever generated them,
61 and may be sold commercially, and may be aggregated with this
64 6. THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR
65 IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED
66 WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR