Re: Lua: open source or not?

[David Kastrup <dak@...>]

Martin Guy <martinwguy@gmail.com> writes:

> On 9/30/10, Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@inf.puc-rio.br> wrote:
>>  > http://www.lua.org/about.html
>>  >
>>  > "Lua is not an open-source project, with code contributed by several people: all code is written by us.".
>>  >
>>  > >From this page:
>>  >
>>  > http://www.lua.org/license.html
>>  >
>>  > "Lua is certified Open Source software."
>>  >
>>  > Are the words "open source" being used in different ways here?
>
> Lua *is* an open source project - see the Open Source Definition.

Not really.  It is distributed as open source, and it is a project.  But
it is not an open source project, since the project itself is not open
and thus not affected by its open source distribution channel.

-- 
David Kastrup