Re: Lua licensing thoughts

[Florian Weimer <fw@...>]

* Martin Schröder:

> 2008/10/1 Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>:
>> * Rob Hoelz:
>>
>>> So if all the story is scripted in Lua, and it's under a CC license, I
>>> can't run it on a GPL engine?
>>
>> The FSF position with regard to some bytecode interpreters (Emacs, for
>> instance) is that the GPL extends to the bytecode.
>
> The GPL FAQ differs:
> http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/gpl-faq.html#IfInterpreterIsGPL

Note that the first paragraph of the answer deals with interpreters
which are GPLed and whose run-time environment is licensed more
permissively.  This is very rare.  Emacs is not in this category.