Re: License

[jim@...]

I took a look at this MIT license. One draw back of this license (and it seems all the 
free-software licenses on opensource.org) is the lack of protection for
the Lua api specification. Without 

/*  - Altered source versions must be plainly marked as such, and must not be    *
/*    misrepresented as being the original software.                             *

The Lua api could potentially be corrupted by an adaptation of Lua. I really like
the Lua license as it is, and I don't see a complimentary license on opensource.org.

Regards,
Jim

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andy Tai" <lichengtai@yahoo.com>
To: "Multiple recipients of list" <lua-l@tecgraf.puc-rio.br>
Cc: <atai@atai.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 2:25 PM
Subject: Re: License


| Hopefully you will adapt the X11 (MIT) license or the
| BSD license without the adverting clause as the
| license for Lua.  Please do not use the Apache license
| because that is not GPL compatible and will prevent
| the use of Lua with GPLed programs. 
| 
| Use of the existing licenses should be preferable. 
| Creating "one more license" instead of using the
| "standard" ones just create more confusion and is not
| good for the health of the Free Software (open source)
| movement, or for the field/profession of software in
| general (for these who do not care about Free
| Software/Open Source :-( )
| 
| --- Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo
| <lhf@tecgraf.puc-rio.br> wrote:
| > >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
| 
| 
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