Re: License

[jim@...]

I'd say getting approval for a "Lua License" would help promote Lua
in some small way. Also, on a side note, I've adopted the current 
Lua License for some software I've free sourced. imho, an official OSI 
Lua license would be cool. :)

Regards,
Jim


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo" <lhf@tecgraf.puc-rio.br>
To: "Multiple recipients of list" <lua-l@tecgraf.puc-rio.br>
Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 6:26 AM
Subject: Re: License


| >http://opensource.org/licenses/index.html
| >
| >If one of those licenses fits your needs, use it.  Many people are
| >familiar with the set of licenses on opensource.org, so if you use one
| >of them, people will not need to study your license carefully to
| >figure out the terms of usage.
| 
| We're considering changing the Lua license to one of these, although we have
| received word from the OSI that the current Lua license would be approved
| as an OSI license if we wish.
| 
| We'll probably decide this when we release the next version of Lua (and so,
| not so terribly soon :-).
| --lhf
| 
|