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

[Christopher Berardi <cberardi@...>]

On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 05:06:08PM +0200, Marc Balmer wrote:
> 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...

Could you use vorbis (which I believe is under a BSD-like license)? Or,
if you need something more all-encompassing (codec-wise), I think that
gstreamer is under LGPL.

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