On 10/23/06, Matt Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
--- "Geir Magnusson Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[SNIP]
> First, there are minor 'nits' here and there related
> to license and
> license headers. For example, we're missing the
> antlr license in our
> NOTICE file.
wrt this particular "nit", antlr 2.x.x versions are
public domain... text:
---
ANTLR 2 License
We reserve no legal rights to the ANTLR--it is fully
in the public domain. An individual or company may do
whatever they wish with source code distributed with
ANTLR or the code generated by ANTLR, including the
incorporation of ANTLR, or its output, into commerical
software.
We encourage users to develop software with ANTLR.
However, we do ask that credit is given to us for
developing ANTLR. By "credit", we mean that if you use
ANTLR or incorporate any source code into one of your
programs (commercial product, research project, or
otherwise) that you acknowledge this fact somewhere in
the documentation, research report, etc... If you like
ANTLR and have developed a nice tool with the output,
please mention that you developed it using ANTLR. In
addition, we ask that the headers remain intact in our
source code. As long as these guidelines are kept, we
expect to continue enhancing this system and expect to
make other tools available as they are completed.
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so any form of acknowledgement is probably good enough
to satisfy Terence.
the public domain has become difficult in recent times. in some
jurisdictions (in europe), i believe that an explicit license is
required. (yes, i know it's daft.) copyright may also now be primarily
criminal matter between the state and the copier. the opinions of the
author matter little. so, it's best to include the statement.
and a note to the notice file to acknowledge Terence :-)
- robert
