IronRuby is now an Open Source project!
Thanks to the hard work of Jon Rosenberg and friends, IronRuby is now officially an Open Source project. On Friday October 12, the OSI approved the Microsoft Public License (or the license formerly known as the Microsoft Permissive License) and the Microsoft Reciprocal License (aka Microsoft Community License).
While many in the community have acknowledged that this was a formality, it's good to put the nonproductive license lawyering behind us so that we can focus on delivering a great Ruby implementation to the community.
It's got an Open Source license, but is it truly Open Source software? Sure, I can get my hands on the source code, but can I contribute to it? Fix it? Patch it, commit code or do anything to influence the future releases of IronRuby?
Posted by: Asbjørn Ulsberg | October 17, 2007 at 12:34 AM
Sure you can. Why don't you join us over on the ironruby-core mailing list?
Posted by: John Lam | October 17, 2007 at 01:06 AM
Congratulations. This is good stuff! One question, where can I join your mailing list?
Posted by: gyurisc | October 17, 2007 at 01:41 AM
Congrats, John.
Vera
ps. awesome photo :)
Posted by: Vera | October 17, 2007 at 11:54 AM
Congratulations, John! *MUCH* change has taken place on campus over the last year. Great work on being a part of making those changes!
@Asbjørn, Your presence would *ROCK*. Come join the fun! :D
Posted by: M. David Peterson | October 18, 2007 at 11:21 AM
Congrats John. You and I should catch up soon.
Posted by: Chad Wathington | October 19, 2007 at 12:42 PM
hi John,
after reading the news I finally decided to have a look on IronRuby.
currently, the only issue I`ve found is the lack of a true compiler, one that can generate an assembly (dll or exe).
the only thing I`ve seen in this direction is the -X:SaveAssemblies option on rbx.
am I missing something? thaks a lot
-papo-
Posted by: papo | October 24, 2007 at 04:38 AM