lua licence

[Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@...>]

It was GPL-compatible, after all ;-)

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[Please forgive our delay, but licensing@gnu.org is highly backlogged.]

On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 02:17:36PM -0300, Roberto Ierusalimschy wrote:
> Recently we have Lua included in your list of "free software". However,
> that does not imply that our license is GPL-compatible, right? So, my
> question: is our license GPL-compatible?
>=20
> (our license is in http://www.lua.org/copyright.html)
>=20
> Thanks for the help,
>=20
> -- Roberto

The Lua License is GPL-Compatible.

Dan

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Dan Tomalesky
Licensing Question Volunteer
Free Software Foundation
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