[Morphling]

Am I missing something obvious here? What would change if this piece of software/algorithm was ported to Ruby? I mean Rubyists would get to use it, but what else would change? This whole thing seems very strange, like if someone would create a cure for a disease and give it out for free and tell everyone how it was made but insit that he be the one who injects every single patient personally.

[Mahn]

It seems he didn't mean to make it open source, but was asked by the Google/Open Refine team and complied without understanding the implications.