Re: Licensing of programs that use Kepler Project code

[Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@...>]

2014-10-26 5:18 GMT+02:00 Paul Merrell <marbux@gmail.com>:
> On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 10:21 PM, Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  If I now write a program that contains a modified version
>> of lom.lua under another name, must I be more righteous
>> than the luaexpat rock? I.e., do I need to include a complete
>> copy of that license somewhere? Or is the fact that my
>> program does have lxp._COPYRIGHT good enough?
>>
>
> By the plain language of the luaexpat license:
>
> "The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
> included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software."

I've done some more digging and found that license.html is in fact
installed by LuaRocks, but not in the same place as, or in fact
anywhere near, lom.lua.

> So you have to include the full text of the license, but arguably not
> the disclaimer portion, the part in all caps.

I'll just put it at the bottom of the source code. Thanks.

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