Re: Proposal: change license to ZLIB license

[Russell Haley <russ.haley@...>]

Since we are talking about licensing:

If I use some example code that came packaged with an MIT licensed
library (or any license for that matter), do I need to give credit to
the author for the "appropriated" code?

Russ

On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 11:00 AM, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo
<lhf@tecgraf.puc-rio.br> wrote:
>> The only thread I found about the license of Lua was one from 2002, so I
>> would like to open a new one to propose a change from the current MIT
>> license to ZLIB license.
>
> Do you mean this thread?
>         http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2002-05/msg00059.html
>
> If so, our reasons stated there remain valid.
> And we have had *zero* complaints regarding the Lua license since the
> adoption of the MIT license in 2002.
>
> The spirit of the Lua license explained in the page below is well served
> by the MIT license:
>         https://www.lua.org/license.html
>
> Changing a license is not something to be taken lightly.
> I see no reason to change the current license.
>
> The point about source x binary has been discussed here before:
>         http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2011-08/msg00849.html
>         http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2010-10/msg00240.html
>
> For the record, binaries that include the Lua library unmodified already
> contain this string:
>         $LuaVersion: Lua 5.3.3  Copyright (C) 1994-2016 Lua.org, PUC-Rio $
>
> See
>         https://www.lua.org/source/5.3/lapi.c.html#lua_ident
>
> --lhf
>