[antlr-interest] licensing stuff

[Serge Bakkal]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ric Klaren" <klaren at cs.utwente.nl>
To: <antlr-interest at yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, February 06, 2004 11:23 AM
Subject: Re: [antlr-interest] licensing stuff


> 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

Ok , As far as I can see , we here can use ANTLR quite safely for our
internal needs ,
but we will have to move to other tools if we plan to distribute our
internal tools :
Are other people coming to the same conclusion ? I came to Ric suggestion
too .

Serge Bakkal





 
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