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

[Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@...>]

> He is probably referring to the difference between the MIT/Expat
> (used by
> Lua and on the OSI site) and the more popular MIT/X11 variant.
> 
> See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_License#Various_versions for more
> information about the difference.

That link talks about "versions" of the MIT license, not "variants".

A version is not a variant; a variant may mean "deviating from a
standard", "not agreeing or conforming", "varying usually slightly from
the standard form", etc.

My worry is that the claim "Lua uses a variant of the MIT license",
recorded in the archives, may cause unnecessary noise in the future.

-- Roberto