Re: [Proposal-ish?] Lua should bind the Lua C API as a Lua module

[Coda Highland <chighland@...>]

On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 8:11 AM, Paige DePol <lual@serfnet.org> wrote:
> I will leave the original copyright in the Lua header files where it
> currently is, as well as appending the new information. I will then also
> advise the user of the patch that they should include the MIT licence
> information, with the Lua copyright, somewhere in their documentation, or
> if they have a GUI perhaps in their acknowledgements section should they
> have one. Or, at the very least, in a README file of some sort.

I would strengthen that up to a "must" instead of a "should" since
that's part of the terms giving you permission to distribute the code
at all. But yes, that's the right strategy.

> So, just to be clear... currently in the "lua.h" header file the license
> is at the end of the file with the PUC-Rio copyright followed by the body
> of the MIT license. Would it be appropriate to simply add an additional
> copyright line below the PUC-Rio copyright?
>
> For example, if I were to alter the license for Lunia:
>
> Copyright (C) 1994-2017 Lua.org, PUC-Rio.
> Copyright (C) 2017 FizzyPop Studios.
>
> Thanks again for your feedback, Coda, it is appreciated! :)

That is precisely the right way to do it.

/s/ Adam