[antlr-interest] 2.8 update

Mark Miller markm at cs.jhu.edu
Sat Feb 5 13:02:53 PST 2005


Terence Parr wrote:
> Do you mean this?
> 
>     •     Neither the name of the <ORGANIZATION> nor the names of its 
> contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from 
> this software without specific prior written permission.

No, I have no objection to that, but I also find it unnecessary. But what I 
was referring to is the same historical issue the following text (at 
<http://opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php>) refers to:

> Note: The advertising clause in the license appearing on BSD Unix files was
> officially rescinded by the Director of the Office of Technology Licensing of
> the University of California on July 22 1999. He states that clause 3 is
> "hereby deleted in its entirety."

That advertising clause does not appear in the license text posted at 
<http://opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php>, which is why opensource.org 
sometimes calls this the "New BSD License".

When we open sourced the old Xanadu sources at Udanax.com, we were going to 
use the BSD License (i.e., the New BSD License without the advertising 
clause). However, after the fifth time we were asked "The one with or without 
the advertising clause?", we switched to the MIT X License in order to avoid 
the confusion.

> I do like the MIT license too...

Would you be willing to switch to it?

-- 
Text by me above is hereby placed in the public domain

     Cheers,
     --MarkM



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