[antlr-interest] 2.8 update
Loring Craymer
Loring.G.Craymer at jpl.nasa.gov
Sun Feb 13 13:12:39 PST 2005
> -----Original Message-----
> From: antlr-interest-bounces at antlr.org [mailto:antlr-interest-
> bounces at antlr.org] On Behalf Of Prashant Deva
> Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2005 10:55 AM
> To: antlr-interest at antlr.org
> Subject: Re: [antlr-interest] 2.8 update
>
> I feel real stupid asking this but what role do the caltech guys have
> to play in antlr??
JPL is part of CalTech, and is a NASA center. As such, I am a CalTech
employee. I put a fair amount of work into developing automatic tree
grammar generation facility for ANTLR, and as part of that work designed and
implemented a target-language independent rewrite syntax and the machinery
to support it.
The combination makes for a significant upgrade to ANTLR; it dramatically
reduces the time needed for developing tree transformation passes.
> Also what all stuff goes under the Caltech/Open Channel?
The grammars for rewrite and tree grammar generation, plus the classes to
support tree grammar generation.
> The Caltech/OpenChannel license restricts modification for
> > commercial use, but not commercial use per se (the intent is to give
> Open
> > Channel a first crack at commercialization opportunities).
There is a phrase on "modification for commercial use" in the license--about
the second paragraph, if I remember correctly. This is not the usual ANTLR
"license", but one negotiated between Open Channel and CalTech.
I'm still working on testing C++ support: I had a defective cygwin
installation, and have been pretty busy this past week. Hopefully, I'll
have everything in the hands of the Open Channel folks early this week.
--Loring
> What exactly do you mean by "commercial use per se" ? I just read the
> license and it seems to have no provision for commercial use anywhere.
>
> PRASHANT
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