[antlr-interest] ANTLR Rights and Open Source issues

Chuck Siska chuck.siska at nb.conexant.com
Tue Jan 22 14:02:26 PST 2002


loring --

you might look at one of the other 28 open source licenses at

  http://www.opensource.org/licenses/index.html

-- chuck

lgcraymer wrote:
> 
> I've finished my tree grammar generator extension to ANTLR and Ter
> and I have been talking about getting that and the tree rewrite
> support into a 2.8 release, possibly along with a code
> generator-generator module that Ter has been thinking about.  I'll
> say more about this in a separate message.
> 
> The problem that Ter and I are grappling with at the moment is the
> release conditions.  JPL has a fairly liberal Open Source policy, but
> will not release into the public domain (no legal protection against
> liability claims, and no desire to waive copyright protection). Ter's
> view, which I tend to agree with, is that Open Source should be "open
> source" and usable without restriction (except possibly to give
> proper credit to developers) in commercial products.  Thus the "ANTLR
> Rights" manifesto to be found on the antlr.org site.
> 
> Ter is willing to put ANTLR under Open Source license, provided that
> 1.)  it doesn't add to the hassles of distributing ANTLR, and
> 2.)  it doesn't compromise the intent of the "Rights" declaration.
> 
> The GNU licenses do not support the intent of the "Rights"
> declaration.  Can anyone point us to a good alternative license which
> preserves the "Rights" intent?  Also, does anyone else have comments
> on the general release policy?
> 
> Help!
> 
> --Loring

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