Re: The impact of a module's license on the requiring Lua program

[Marc Balmer <marc@...>]

Am 10.04.2012 09:56, schrieb Dimitris Papavasiliou:
>     What impact does the license of a Lua module have on the requiring (i.e.
>     calling) Lua program?
>
>
> In case this is about luaprompt I should note that I'll be re-releasing
> it under the MIT license once I figure out exactly how to do that since
> it is part of a larger project which I'd like to keep GPL'd.

That is good news, thanks for considering a license change.  My initial 
question, however, was raised because I wrote a Lua binding for 
xine-lib, the Video decoder library.  Until I realised that xone-lib is 
GPL, not LGPL.

After the feedback I got, I will toss this work and look for another 
solution to add video playback to LuaMotif.  Maybe LuaMotif will just 
execute a binary that uses xine-lib.  That binary would then be GPL.

We'll see...