On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 5:36 PM, Petite Abeille <petite.abei...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Nov 12, 2010, at 12:31 AM, Jay A. Kreibich wrote: > >> There have been many proposals to do just this, and in specific, >> with Lua. Outside of some moderate technical issues, the >> big problem is the license. Something like that would *never* >> be part of the SQLite core because the Lua license is not >> compatible with SQLite's license-- i.e. it is not in the public >> domain. > > hmmm... not wanting to go down lawyer lane, but... isn't Lua's MIT license as > liberal as it gets? Just curious. >
Public domain is "as liberal as it gets." Nothing else is. -- Puneet Kishor http://www.punkish.org Carbon Model http://carbonmodel.org Charter Member, Open Source Geospatial Foundation http://www.osgeo.org Science Commons Fellow, http://sciencecommons.org/about/whoweare/kishor Nelson Institute, UW-Madison http://www.nelson.wisc.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Assertions are politics; backing up assertions with evidence is science ======================================================================= _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
