Re: License

[Andy Tai <lichengtai@...>]

Hopefully you will adapt the X11 (MIT) license or the
BSD license without the adverting clause as the
license for Lua.  Please do not use the Apache license
because that is not GPL compatible and will prevent
the use of Lua with GPLed programs. 

Use of the existing licenses should be preferable. 
Creating "one more license" instead of using the
"standard" ones just create more confusion and is not
good for the health of the Free Software (open source)
movement, or for the field/profession of software in
general (for these who do not care about Free
Software/Open Source :-( )

--- Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo
<lhf@tecgraf.puc-rio.br> wrote:
> >http://opensource.org/licenses/index.html
> >
> >If one of those licenses fits your needs, use it. 
> Many people are
> >familiar with the set of licenses on
> opensource.org, so if you use one
> >of them, people will not need to study your license
> carefully to
> >figure out the terms of usage.
> 
> We're considering changing the Lua license to one of
> these, although we have
> received word from the OSI that the current Lua
> license would be approved
> as an OSI license if we wish.
> 
> We'll probably decide this when we release the next
> version of Lua (and so,
> not so terribly soon :-).
> --lhf


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