LuaCmd 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. LuaCmd (probably) qualifies as Open Source software. Nevertheless, LuaCmd is not in the public domain and TeCGraf keeps its copyright.
If you use LuaCmd, 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.
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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 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 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 LuaCmd implementation have been entirely designed and written by Antonio Escaņo Scuri at TeCGraf, PUC-Rio.
This implementation contains no third-party code.
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