[antlr-interest] submission of patches, fixes, other contributions

[Lloyd Dupont]

Is it important to have long licence document to make it valid?
isn't there any short, BSD style, valid licence?
what about this one:
http://opensource.org/licenses/zlib-license.php ?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John D. Mitchell" <johnm-antlr at non.net>
To: "ANTLR Interest" <antlr-interest at antlr.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2005 10:43 AM
Subject: Re: [antlr-interest] submission of patches, fixes, other 
contributions


> Here's an example from which to work:
> http://www.netbeans.org/kb/faqs/jca.html
>
>
> Also, as I've noted previously, the (revised) BSD license doesn't really
> have the necessary and sufficient legal coverage anymore (especially
> w.r.t. to the cantakerous and costly issues such as patents).  Check out
> the "Academic Free License" (AFL):
> http://opensource.org/licenses/afl-2.1.php
>
> Given what you're asking contributors to agree to, the AFL matches that 
> for
> the license of the software itself.
>
> Have fun,
> John