Re: The impact of a module's license on the requiring Lua

[Pierre Chapuis <catwell@...>]

On 2012-04-17 15:26, Roberto Ierusalimschy wrote:
> > While you're at it: Lua uses a variant of the MIT license, not the
> > MIT/X11 license. There's a difference. I've made that mistake
> > before. A discussion is somewhere in the mailing list archives.
> >
> > I've decided to refer to it as the MIT license and link to:
> >   http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php
>
> Since Lua 5.0 (2003) we have adopted the MIT license, not a variant. 
> If
> there is any difference, we should correct it. I just compared the 
> text
> in that link with the Lua license, and did not see any difference. 
> Could
> you point out what it is?

He is probably referring to the difference between the MIT/Expat (used 
by
Lua and on the OSI site) and the more popular MIT/X11 variant.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_License#Various_versions for more
information about the difference.

--
Pierre Chapuis