Post #2725924

2025-01-16 16:02 UTC

@Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com My code is MIT. There are Luarocks bundled in the distribution tarball and those would be governed by their respective licenses which I believe are in the Luarocks metadata, which is also in the tarball. You bring up an excellent point here. Next release will more explicitly separate my MIT license code from the bundled dependencies.

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@Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com 2025-01-16 16:11

@aaron@chirp.zadzmo.org >My code is MIT. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has released many licenses - MIT expat or expat is only one of them. >Next release will more explicitly separate my MIT license code from the bundled dependencies. There is no need for separation - each nontrivial file just needs a copyright header detailing the license, copyright year(s) and the copyright holder(s), which is really needed for all free software. At bare minimum you could put a comment in the README stating files under x folders are licensed under MIT expat, but it's extremely easy for the software and the README to become separated (same as the LICENSE file too), so you really don't want to do just that.

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