[antlr-interest] ANTLR v3 compatible with GPL?

[Ric Klaren]

Hi,

Denis Washington wrote:
> I have read on the antlr.org that ANTLR v3 is BSD licensed. Does that
> mean that is incompatible to the GPL and therefore can't be used with
> GPL'd applications? That would be a big drawback from ANTLR v2 for,
> probably, several apps.
> 
> See:
> http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#OriginalBSD
> 
> A modification of the BSD license
> (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#ModifiedBSD) would make
> ANTLR 3 also usable for GPL projects.

ANTLR3 is afaik the modified BSD license. This was discussed quite a lot
in the past, some digging in the archives should turn up the whole
discussion.

Cheers,

Ric