Re: Legal Risk (was Re: Re: ActiveState seeking Lua community feedback

[Sean Conner <sean@...>]

It was thus said that the Great Russell Haley once stated:
> 
> Moreover, I haven't seen a single Lua package from Luarocks or
> LuaForge or Github that was not MIT or more liberal 

  There are a few Lua modules that are LGPL (some even available via
LuaRocks).  I just thought I should point that out since not everybody
consideres the (L)GPL to be "liberal" [1].

  -spc (This is not meant to start a "discussion" about the merits of GPL vs
	MIT, more of a FYI ... so make sure you check licenses)

[1]	The GPL is end-user friendly (and considered "developer-hostile"),
	that that it allows end-users to obtain the source code for the
	programs they use (or in the case of LGPL, allow the user to modify
	the library source and use the modified library in the program). 
	The other open-source licenses are developer-friendly (and
	considered "user-hostile) such that developers can use the code and
	don't have to release changes.