Re: gpl issue

[Pierre-Yves Gérardy <pygy79@...>]

On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 16:56, Patrick Donnelly <batrick@batbytes.com> wrote:
> 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.

The MIT License explicitly allows sublicensing.

> Copyright © 1994–2008 Lua.org, PUC-Rio.
>
> Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person
> obtaining a copy of  [the "Software"], to deal in the Software without
> restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify,
> merge, publish, distribute, **sublicense**, and/or sell copies of the
> Software, ...


-- Pierre-Yves