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

[Lorenzo Donati <lorenzodonatibz@...>]

On 07/11/2016 02:50, Martin wrote:
> On 16-11-04 12:00 AM, Philipp Janda wrote:
> >  ["GNU GPL v3"] = 4,
> >  ["GPL-3"] = 214,
> >  ["GNU/GPL 3"] = 2,
> >  ["GNU GPLv3"] = 3,
> >  ["GPL v3"] = 9,
> >  ["GPLv3"] = 14,
>
> Ugh. Looks like some license name canonization wouldn't hurt.
+1.

Exactly what I thought when I saw that list.

This could also avoid misunderstandings: although the ones you cite are 
clearly the same license, there could be well cases (TL;DR) where a 
different spelling could actually mean a license variant (e.g. "generic" 
MIT vs. MIT/X11 vs. whatever).

Sadly I fear this could mean building a repository of 
"LuaRocks-approved" license IDs, so more work for the LuaRocks team.