Re: Lua: open source or not?

[Martin Guy <martinwguy@...>]

On 10/6/10, David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> wrote:
> Martin Guy <martinwguy@gmail.com> writes:
>  > On 9/30/10, Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@inf.puc-rio.br> wrote:
>  >>  > "Lua is not an open-source project, with code contributed by several people: all code is written by us.".
>  > 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.

Thanks. That's a finer distinction in meaning between OS software and OS project

    M