Re: Lua licensing thoughts
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- Subject: Re: Lua licensing thoughts
- From: "Martin Schröder" <martin@...>
- Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 15:12:14 +0200
2008年10月3日 Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>:
>> 2008年10月1日 Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>:
>>> The FSF position with regard to some bytecode interpreters (Emacs, for
>>> instance) is that the GPL extends to the bytecode.
>>
>> The GPL FAQ differs:
>> http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/gpl-faq.html#IfInterpreterIsGPL
>
> Note that the first paragraph of the answer deals with interpreters
> which are GPLed and whose run-time environment is licensed more
> permissively. This is very rare. Emacs is not in this category.
So we have to look at two licenses: Interpreter and run-time
environment. The license for the interpreter shouldn't be a problem
(unless it's really weird). It's the environment's we have to care
about.
Best
Martin