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

[Terence Parr]

Howdy.  Yeah, I'm still thinking that BSD is the least restrictive and  
yet makes some lawyers feel better.

Thanks,
Ter

On Mar 9, 2004, at 3:49 AM, Anthony Youngman wrote:

> Two comments about licencing ...
>
> Why not look at one of the biggest Open Source projects out there?
> namely linux <vbg/>
>
> And what's wrong with the *L*GPL? I can't tell Ter what to do with his
> stuff, but as a small-time programmer, it would be my licence of  
> choice.
> And I don't see why my employers can't take advantage of it if they
> wish.
>
> Cheers,
> Wol
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cj_daly [mailto:cj_daly at yahoo.com]
> Sent: 08 March 2004 20:52
> To: antlr-interest at yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [antlr-interest] Re: stuff I don't like about ANTLR 2.x
>
> Here are a few:
>
> 0) (I thought of this last but I'm adding it at the beginning because
> it's so important to me!).  Those of us wanting to use Antlr within a
> corporate environment have to do something to make the laywers happy.
>  I think the singlemost important thing you can do here is to have a
> mechanism for registering contributers.  Each contributer should be
> reachable (email is fine but the more contact info you have the
> better) and should have made some kind of affirmation that they agree
> with the license (this affirmation could be an email that you print
> and save, but a signed form faxed or snail-mailed would be even  
> better).
>
> I suggest looking at some of the bigger open source projects like
> Mozilla or Eclipse or Apache to see what mechanisms and forms they use.
>
> Laywers would be even happier if the contributers all assign their
> copyrights to one person (i.e. Terence) or entity (like U of S.F.) but
> I don't think this is necessary as long as all of the contributers are
> contactable (and there aren't so many that it becomes extremely
> difficult to contact them all).
>
> Beyond that, you mentioned before that you are considering BSD as the
> license.  That would work for me.  GPL or LGPL would totally disallow
> me from using Antlr.  CPL (the license Eclipse uses) would be ideal
> for me but BSD is very doable.
>
>
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