[antlr-interest] ANTLR v3 compatible with GPL?

Scott Amort jsamort at gmail.com
Tue Aug 15 10:39:55 PDT 2006


Oops, one more point:

On Tue, 2006-08-15 at 16:37 +0100, Micheal J wrote:
> AFAICT, the source licensing issue is only relevant if the intention is to
> RE-LICENSE the ANTLR v3 sources (tool and runtime) under the GPL as was
> common with the ANTLR v2 sources.

Yes, and this is what happens if you link to ANTLR v3's library from
GPL-code.  You are in essence re-licensing it as GPL (which is allowed
by the new BSD license, and which is why that license is compatible with
the GPL).

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#WhatDoesCompatMean

Best,
Scott



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