[antlr-interest] Re: stuff I don't like about ANTLR 2.x

[Terence Parr]

On Mar 10, 2004, at 3:21 AM, Anthony Youngman wrote:
> I think licences can be split into four groups, really.
>
> 1. The "don't sue me, but do as you like" group.
>
> BSD, artistic, etc. Basically, they waive copyright restrictions, and
> say to the user "you're on your own". Actually, Ter, I'd seriously look
> at the Artistic licence. It's just as free with the *CODE* as the BSD,
> but it's basically got a "don't piss me off or I'll take the *NAME*
> away" clause. After all, you wouldn't be pleased if I took ANTLR,
> modified it, sold it under the ANTLR name, and ruined your reputation.
> Would you? For those customers who just want the code, there's no
> difference between BSD and artistic. But for those people who rely on
> the ANTLR name and trust your integrity, the artistic licence is much
> better.

An interesting point, though, I'm not all that worried about this issue.

> For example, when Artistic State released "Perl for Windows", everybody
> just *knew* that MS had not pulled their "extend, ..." tricks because
> the product was called Perl. Piss of Larry, and while the artistic
> licence would not let him object to the *product*, he could make them
> pull every reference to Perl from their literature...

Interesting...problem is that the current version of ANTLR could be 
"stolen".  The horse may already be out of the barn ;)

Thanks,
Ter
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