[antlr-interest] licensing stuff

Ric Klaren klaren at cs.utwente.nl
Fri Feb 6 02:23:05 PST 2004


On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 01:54:57PM -0800, Addi Jamshidi wrote:
> > From my understanding (and of course I maybe wrong), but I believe our
> > corporate lawyers have offered putting in place a licensing agreement that
> > is genuinely meant to be for Open Source (without charging anything from
> > the ANTLR community). Not sure what the outcome of it has been or whether
> > it has been accepted. But regardless, ANTLR does not need to hire lawyers,
> > all they need to do is to ask one of the comapnie's that is using (or
> > wanted to use) the ANTLR runtime library to provide them with the proper
> > licensing agreement and advice (after all it would be in the company's own
> > interest).
>  
> FYI: Regretfully as it stands and as of today we have been told that the
> decision NOT to use ANTLR is final since the current licensing agreement
> leaves the corporation with potential law suits and liabilities in the
> future, and therefore we have to re-architect our product using other
> alternatives.

You did see my suggestion of adding a custom codegenerator to antlr and an
own support lib ? As long as you don't have to ship the antlr tool itself
this looks a valid option to me.

A manager would have to be seriously stupid not to consider that option
since retargetting a codegenerator for antlr is a lot less work than the 6
months work you guys spent in making your current parser. A small
calculation in costs will of course turn this in something even an
accountant can understand...

Cheers,

Ric

PS I'm once more *very* glad not to live in the states...
PPS Yes this kinda stuff annoys the hell out of me. My apologies for that
if needed.
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