Re: gpl issue

[Martin Voigt <voigt.m@...>]

> You cannot relicense code of which you do not own the copyright.
>
> You just need to "redistribute" the Lua source under their MIT license
> alongside your GPL program. I don't see the problem here.

Yea, I think that's what we'll do, just wasn't sure. It's a bit of
complicated when you actually want to distribute using the MIT or zlib
license but then discover that you use a GPL lib you cannot replace,
which is why I'm asking this question in the first place ;)

On 8 September 2010 16:56, Patrick Donnelly <batrick@batbytes.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 10:51 AM, Martin Voigt <voigt.m@googlemail.com> wrote:
>> I should have written that in the first mail, we just want to
>> distribute our lua/ luac modules bundled with a modified Lua
>> interpreter under the GPL2, and we're not sure if that is possible.
>
> You cannot relicense code of which you do not own the copyright.
>
> You just need to "redistribute" the Lua source under their MIT license
> alongside your GPL program. I don't see the problem here.
>
> --
> - Patrick Donnelly
>
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