[antlr-interest] ANTLR 3 License

[Anthony W Youngman]

The intent is extremely clear.

And if you have difficulty understanding the Open Source licences, I
would conclude that you haven't read any MS EULAs :-)

Also, Open Source licence violations are almost always settled amicably.
I can think of only one court case - MySQL/NuSphere - and I gather
NuSphere caved in once their lawyers realised they were in blatant
breach of both the letter and spirit of the licence. But note I said
*blatant* breach of the *spirit* of the licence.

I know I started this - if I started a flame war then sorry. But I have
a strong preference for the LGPL. (I don't particularly like the GPL.)
But the standard Open Source rule is "he who writes the code makes the
rules". Having been involved (with a personal interest) in another "what
licence should we use" battle, I'm well aware of the issues involved...

Cheers,
Wol

-----Original Message-----
From: Matt Benson [mailto:gudnabrsam at yahoo.com] 
Sent: 17 July 2003 21:11
To: antlr-interest at yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [antlr-interest] ANTLR 3 License


Wow.  That was rough.  Personally, I'm not the least
bit ashamed to admit having difficulty in
understanding the dizzying wording of the various
open-source licenses.

-Matt

--- Braden McDaniel <braden at endoframe.com> wrote:
> Quoting Joe Comuzzi <jcomuzzi at novell.com>:
> 
> > At the risk of adding to the flame war - I have to
> say that the
> > discussion below proves why no software engineer
> working for a software
> > company wants to go near the LGPL It means you get
> to spend time in
> > meetings in the company of lawyers.
> 
> Or be reasonably confident in one's own literacy.
> 
> -- 
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