Re: Compiling lua code WITH my application

["Adam D. Moss" <adam@...>]

> The 5.0 license defines 'Software' as "this software and associated
> documentation files".

Not the least-ambiguous definition in the world though. :)  'This'
software, being the bundle of source code and documents which
comprise the Lua distribution, is not what I'd be redistributing a
'copy' or even a 'substantial portion' of.

> Anyway, http://www.lua.org/copyright.html says:
>
>   The only requirement is that if you do use Lua, then you should give us
>   credit by including the appropriate copyright notice somewhere in your
>   product or its documentation.

I see, this is in the pre-amble on the web page but to me (I
am not a lawyer) isn't clear from the 'COPYRIGHT' file in the
lua5 distribution or an essential part of the MIT license as I
understood it (except as obviously applies to source code
redistribution).

> So, this applies to source code distributions and also to binaries linked
> with Lua. Isn't that clear? We moved to the MIT license so that this kind of
> questions were easily answered...

I'm totally willing to follow the authors' wishes as long as
I know what they are.  And now it's clearer what they are.  I'd
rather ask than be left with any doubt.

--Adam
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