Re: Proposal: change license to ZLIB license

[Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@...>]

> That sort of license (intentionally or not) severely limits the use of
> a piece of software. As I understand it, (and I am not a lawyer), it’s not
> recognized as valid in many places. In addition, many larger companies or
> groups don’t want to deal with software that uses such licenses because
> it’s perceived (rightly or wrongly) as non-serious. I remember learning
> that even placing something in the public domain is not without problems
> because that too is not recognized as legal in some places.

Those are the main reasons we changed for MIT several years ago.

Frequently, more important than the exact wording is how people perceive
the licence. MIT is a well known, well established licence that large
companies are accustomed to use; a developer don't have to go to a
company's laywer to check whether she can use that software. (And if
she goes, the laywer already has a standard answer for that case.)

-- Roberto