On 28 Jun 2014, at 12:33, Christian Schoenebeck <schoeneb...@crudebyte.com> wrote:
> On Friday 27 June 2014 18:12:34 Hans Aberg wrote: >> On 27 Jun 2014, at 14:40, Christian Schoenebeck <schoeneb...@crudebyte.com> > wrote: >>> 1. Strong separation between "lexer" and "parser" has its historical >>> >>> reasons, but it makes things often quite problematic. >> >> Bison is synced in the first hand with Flex, but the latter does not >> currently belong to the GNU project, and has a different license, BSD. But >> if that changes, a more radical integration might be possible. > > Flex is released under the 2-clause BSD license, which is compatible with the > GPL. So that is not the problem. And whether it is part of the GNU project or > not is not relevant. > > There rather seems to be no interest on GNU side to design a modern parser > generator. It is the other way around: Flex isn’t developed currently, and not able to develop it under the BSD licence. _______________________________________________ help-bison@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-bison
