All good points yet again. The reality is that I work for a vendor and
they sponsored the project with my wages. That's not a lot of money :)
but they are used to a world in where IP = source code and
anything different is alien to them. I'm very open to suggestions on
this topic because you are quite right, the MIT license will allow using
closed source however you like. The Lua4z source code has been heavily
patched for z/OS which is at least a years worth of effort. I can't see
my company opening that up. But changing the license should be a sweeter
pill to swallow.
On 24/10/2014 1:14 AM, John McKown wrote:
Why not just release it under the MIT license like the main lua code from
www.lua.org is released under? Unless, of course, the company does not want
to release the source. That is certainly allowable under the original's MIT
license. And is one reason that the MIT license exists and is used. I.e. it
is allowed to "commercialize" a port of an MIT licensed product such as
lua. Since this is "free as in beer" and not "freee as in freedom", then I
_assume_ that one of the hopes is that the product will generate support
contracts. Which could be jeopardized if the source is released.
On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 11:56 AM, David Crayford <[email protected]>
wrote:
On 24/10/2014 12:36 AM, Tony Harminc wrote:
On 23 October 2014 07:38, David Crayford <[email protected]> wrote:
Lua4z is available at no charge. Download it now from:
http://lua4z.com
Sigh - just what the world needs - another "free as in free beer" free
software licence. As proprietary licences go, this one is perhaps less
bad than many, but I really can't see a lot of places just clicking
and installing on their companies' z/OS systems without getting their
own lawyers involved.
I must ask if you considered an open source licence for this. The
companies that would license it would surely sign up for support in
any case.
Well, enough negativity... I am glad you've released this. Lua is
certainly a great thing to have on z/OS, and I hope it catches on.
Good points, well made.
If you have concerns with the license please tell me what you don't like
because it can be changed. The developers on the project were uncomfortable
with some of the words because legal documents are difficult to grok at
the best of times. The idea is for Lua to be free and if you
want to use it in production with support we can do that. If you want the
source code we can talk about that too.
What I really would like is for people to try it, because it really is
very good.
Tony H.
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