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authorLua Team <team@lua.org>1999-07-08 12:00:00 +0000
committerrepogen <>1999-07-08 12:00:00 +0000
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@@ -4,14 +4,18 @@ Lua COPYRIGHT NOTICE
Lua is free and non-proprietary.
It can be used for both academic and commercial purposes at absolutely no cost.
There are no royalties or GNU-like "copyleft" restrictions.
-On the other hand, Lua is not in the public domain; TeCGraf keeps its copyright.
-If you use Lua, please give us credit, but we would appreciate *not* receiving
+Lua (probably) qualifies as Open Source software.
+Nevertheless, Lua is not in the public domain and TeCGraf keeps its copyright.
+
+If you use Lua, please give us credit (a nice way to do this is to include a
+logo in a web page for your product), but we would appreciate *not* receiving
lengthy legal documents to sign.
-The legal details are below.
+
+The legal details are below.
===============================================================================
-Copyright (c) 1994-1998 TeCGraf, PUC-Rio. All rights reserved.
+Copyright (c) 1994-1999 TeCGraf, PUC-Rio. All rights reserved.
Permission is hereby granted, without written agreement and without license
or royalty fees, to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its