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+!!Notice!! This is a preliminary release for internal team reviewing.
+ The URL and address discribed below are not available yet.
+ The official release will be announced later. Thanks.
+ Any suggestion of the modification are welcome,
+ but the response might be delayed. Sorry for that in advance.
+
* What's mRuby
-mRuby is the light-weighted implementation of ruby language complied with ISO standard to execute various environment. It can run as 'interpreter form' or
+mRuby is the light-weight implementation of the Ruby language complied to the ISO
+standard to execute various environments. It can run in 'interpreter form' or
'compile and execute on vm form' according to its module construction.
-This achivement is due to the Regional Innovation Creation R&D Programs of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry of Japan.
+This achievement is due to the Regional Innovation Creation R&D Programs of
+the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry of Japan.
* Features of mRuby
@@ -39,9 +47,9 @@ command and see the list of branches:
$ git ...
-* mRuby home-page ( sorry,it's not launched yet.We're working on this)
+* mRuby home-page (sorry, it's not launched yet. we're working on this)
-The URL of the mRuby home-page is:
+The URL of the mRuby home-page is:
http://www.mruby.org/
@@ -61,12 +69,35 @@ See the file INSTALL.
See the file COPYING.
+* About Contribution
+
+Thank you for considering of contribution for mRuby.
+mRuby has chosen a MIT License as comparatively loose condition,
+to expect to apply into various environment such as embedded system.
+However, the license requires to display copyright notice and license
+sentenses, for example manual or so. Especially for the recent bigger
+system, it is comlecated or very troublesome.
+So, mRuby has decided to display "mruby developers" as copyright name
+to make it simple conventionally.
+In the future, mRuby might ask you to distribute your new codes
+(that you will commit,) under MIT License as a member of
+"mruby developers" with keeping copyright of you.
+(We did not intend you to transfer or waive your copyright,
+ Actual copyright holder name, you, will be listed in AUTHORS file.)
+
+Please ask us if you want to distribute your code under other license
+or if your code is derived from GPL code.
+
+
* The Author
-Feel free to send comments and bug reports to the author. Here is the
+See the file AUTHORS.
+
+
+Feel free to send comments and bug reports to the author. Here is the
author's latest mail address:
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created at: Fri Apr 20 11:57:36 JST 2012