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-Copyright (c) 1994-1997 TeCGraf, PUC-Rio. Written by Waldemar Celes Filho,
-Roberto Ierusalimschy, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo. All rights reserved.
+Lua COPYRIGHT NOTICE
+--------------------
-Permission is hereby granted, without written agreement and without license or
-royalty fees, to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its
-documentation for any purpose, subject to the following conditions:
+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
+lengthy legal documents to sign.
+The legal details are below.
-The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall appear in all
-copies or substantial portions of this software.
+===============================================================================
-The name "Lua" cannot be used for any modified form of this software that does
-not originate from the authors. Nevertheless, the name "Lua" may and should be
-used to designate the language implemented and described in this package,
-even if embedded in any other system, as long as its syntax and semantics
-remain unchanged.
+Copyright (c) 1994-1998 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
+documentation for any purpose, including commercial applications, subject to
+the following conditions:
+
+ * The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall appear in all
+ copies or substantial portions of this software.
+
+ * The origin of this software must not be misrepresented; you must not
+ claim that you wrote the original software. If you use this software in a
+ product, an acknowledgment in the product documentation would be greatly
+ appreciated (but it is not required).
+
+ * Altered source versions must be plainly marked as such, and must not be
+ misrepresented as being the original software.
+
The authors specifically disclaim any warranties, including, but not limited
to, the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular
purpose. The software provided hereunder is on an "as is" basis, and the
authors have no obligation to provide maintenance, support, updates,
enhancements, or modifications. In no event shall TeCGraf, PUC-Rio, or the
-authors be liable to any party for direct, indirect, special, incidental, or
-consequential damages arising out of the use of this software and its
-documentation.
+authors be held liable to any party for direct, indirect, special,
+incidental, or consequential damages arising out of the use of this software
+and its documentation.
+
+The Lua language and this implementation have been entirely designed and written
+by Waldemar Celes, Roberto Ierusalimschy, and Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo
+at TeCGraf, PUC-Rio.
+
+This implementation contains no third-party code.
+
+===============================================================================