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- Subject: Re: The impact of a module's license on the requiring Lua
- From: Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@...>
- Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2012 10:26:48 -0300
> While you're at it: Lua uses a variant of the MIT license, not the
> MIT/X11 license. There's a difference. I've made that mistake
> before. A discussion is somewhere in the mailing list archives.
>
> I've decided to refer to it as the MIT license and link to:
> http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php
Since Lua 5.0 (2003) we have adopted the MIT license, not a variant. If
there is any difference, we should correct it. I just compared the text
in that link with the Lua license, and did not see any difference. Could
you point out what it is?
-- Roberto