Hello Geertjan, I wanted to look into a CSS parser error I saw while working with NB9 and noticed, that one of the most important files is missing:
css.lib/src/org/netbeans/modules/css/lib/Css3.g that file holds an antlr3 grammer for CSS 3. That file was not donated and I think the reason is, that the header contains a different copyright: // Author : Jim Idle, Temporal Wave LLC. // Contact : jimi@temp oral-wave.com // Website : http://www.temporal-wave.com // License : ANTLR Free BSD License My investigation showed, that the file is based on: https://github.com/antlr/grammars-v3/blob/master/css21/css21.g or https://github.com/antlr/grammars-v3/raw/master/css21/css21.g the headers and big chunks of the first checkin of Css3.g match. I see that oracle might feel uncomfortable/prohibited donating the whole file, but what could be donated is a diff between the original file from the antlr repository and the current state in netbeans. In technical term I suggest, that the patch against the base file is donated: # Get basefile wget https://github.com/antlr/grammars-v3/raw/master/css21/css21.g # Get netbeans state wget http://hg.netbeans.org/releases/raw-file/tip/css.lib/src/org/netbeans/modules/css/lib/Css3.g # Create patch diff -u css21.g Css3.g > nb_css_parser.patch That diff only contains changes done by netbeans committers and this is either covered by the normal Oracle copyright (employees working on netbeans) or the OCLA. I also though about alternatives. Rebuilding the css.lib module from a different grammar looks unrealistic, as combined grammars for CSS3, SASS and LESS are not that many and they'd need to be compatible with the exported API. Basicly this would mean to repeat the whole work that has gone into the css.lib module in the first place. Recovering the grammar from the generated code (that was donated) - parts of the grammar could be recovered, but I doubt everythink can be recovered and it will also take a long time. It would be great if this could be done. Thank you Matthias --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@netbeans.incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@netbeans.incubator.apache.org For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists
