[antlr-interest] ANTLR Rights and Open Source issues

[Smith, Eric V.]

How about a BSD style license, for example:
http://www.freebsd.org/copyright/freebsd-license.html

I couldn't find the "rights" section on antlr.org after a brief search, but
I suspect that the BSD license agrees.  If not, my apologies.

Eric.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: lgcraymer [mailto:lgc at mail1.jpl.nasa.gov]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2002 3:05 PM
> To: antlr-interest at yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [antlr-interest] ANTLR Rights and Open Source issues
> 
> 
> 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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