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

[Miles Bader <miles@...>]

Alexander Gladysh <agladysh@gmail.com> writes:
>> as dismissive, after someone has gone to a lot of trouble to share
>> code - and then doesn't get an evaluation or anything remotely
>> technical, just nitpicking.
>
> License issues are *not* nitpicking, no matter what your position
> about GPL is!

I think what steve is complaining is that stuff which isn't _really_
discussion of license issues.  [The latter can be useful, and needn't
involve any flaming.]

Inevitably in these sorts of threads, there are a few people who use
the opportunity to simply get a few kicks in, and such "discussion"
isn't particularly useful to anybody, as it typically doesn't do more
than repeat the same hoary old dogma and slogans (which everybody
already knows) ad-nauseum, often attempting to be as snarky as
possible ('cause you know, those other guys are the _enemy_ and we
hateses them!).

Both licenses are useful, and have legitimate use cases for Lua code.
It's good that people should be informed about the ramifications of
their license choice, but given the tendency of such discussions to
deteriorate into flamewars, it seems best to simply say "BTW, Lua has
a tradition of using MIT/BSD licensing", point at the wikipedia pages
or something, and change the subject...

-miles

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