Re: License

[Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo <lhf@...>]

>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.

Try the zlib license: http://www.opensource.org/licenses/zlib-license.html
As far as I can tell, this and others come from the classical regexp package
by Henry Spencer, reproduced below.

 Copyright (c) 1986, 1993, 1995 by University of Toronto.
 Written by Henry Spencer.  Not derived from licensed software.

 Permission is granted to anyone to use this software for any
 purpose on any computer system, and to redistribute it in any way,
 subject to the following restrictions:

 1. The author is not responsible for the consequences of use of
	 this software, no matter how awful, even if they arise
	 from defects in it.

 2. The origin of this software must not be misrepresented, either
	 by explicit claim or by omission.

 3. Altered versions must be plainly marked as such, and must not
	 be misrepresented (by explicit claim or omission) as being
	 the original software.

 4. This notice must not be removed or altered.

I agree that we need something like #3 above.
--lhf