[antlr-interest] ANTLR 3 License

[Matthew Ford]

One way around this I have seen in Java MP3 decoders is to distribute the
jar files as seperate files.
Actually with Sun's SPI you don't even need an import in your code.
But even so putting an import in your code I don't think would invoke this
section as long as you did not "produce a work containing portions of the
Library", ie keep the jar files seperate.
Well thats my non-legal two bits worth.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Matt Benson" <gudnabrsam at yahoo.com>
To: <antlr-interest at yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, July 19, 2003 6:33 AM
Subject: RE: [antlr-interest] ANTLR 3 License


> ARGH! :)
>
> from Section 6:
>
> you may also combine or link a "work that uses the
> Library" with the Library to produce a work containing
> portions of the Library, and distribute that work
> under terms of your choice, provided that the terms
> permit modification of the work for the customer's own
> use and reverse engineering for debugging such
> modifications.
>
>
> "the terms permit modification of the work for the
> customer's own use and reverse engineering", "the
> work" being "a 'work that uses the Library'."
>
>
> If I write a "work that uses the Library" under the
> LGPL, this says that I can license MY work under the
> terms of my choice PROVIDED that those terms permit
> modification.  Where is the communication gap here?
>
> -Matt
>
> --- Braden McDaniel <braden at endoframe.com> wrote:
> > Quoting Matt Benson <gudnabrsam at yahoo.com>:
> >
> > > Basically, then, at the risk of repeating myself,
> > I
> > > read that as "LGPL necessitates that dependent
> > Java
> > > code be available under some open-source-spirited
> > > license."
> >
> > Incorrect; and I quite explicitly said otherwise in
> > my previous posting.
> >
> > Exactly what part of the LGPL is leading you to this
> > conclusion?
> >
> > --
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> >
> >
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