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+MIT License
+
+Copyright (c) 2021 Lua.org, PUC-Rio.
+
+Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
+of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
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+to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
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+
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+# RiscLua
+RiscLua is a port to RISC OS of the Lua programming language. It differs from standard Lua in a few small details to be more conformant to RISC OS. The packaging of RiscLua has also varied. At one point it was a relocatable module, but it was found that error-handling was easier when packaged as an application.
+
+Lua license is included [here](LICENSE)
+Changes to Lua port for RISC OS are copyright Gavin Wraith and distributed under the same license as Lua original code (MIT license)
+
+
+## Status:
 RiscLua 86 (VFP)
 Based on Lua 5.4.3
 Compiler: GCC 4.7.4