[antlr-interest] 2.8 update

Loring Craymer Loring.G.Craymer at jpl.nasa.gov
Mon Feb 14 15:36:06 PST 2005


At 03:03 PM 2/14/2005, John D. Mitchell wrote:
>To be clear, the annoying OpenChannel license is utterly irrelevant to
>Antlr v3.0.  Antlr 3.0 is a complete, from the ground up, rewrite of Antlr.

John--

Have you read the Open Channel license?  It is a very simple Open Source 
license which reserves rather minimal commercialization rights.  In that, 
it is not really much different from the BSD license:  the BSD "no 
endorsement" clause effectively means that you need to negotiate with the 
licensor before you can sell the software as a product.  Negotiation might 
be as simple as an exchange of emails or a phone call.  Some other licenses 
(like the one for eclipse) do specify that the licensee is free to sell the 
product, but that is another matter.

--Loring

>The Antlr v3.0 *implementation* is taking nothing from any of the previous
>versions.  The Antlr v3.x line will be cleanly released under a BSD-style
>license.
>
>Take care,
>         John




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