The folks on the marpa IRC channel and I have quietly begun a Marpa::R3 effort. This will eliminated everything kept in Marpa::R2 for backward compatibility: The only supported interface will be the SLIF (which is the one almost everyone uses anyway). This will clear the way to a refactoring of the code, and to new features. Perl 5.10.1 and above will be supported. Support for 5.10.0 is eliminated.
In the process, I'm thinking of re-licensing. Currently Marpa::R3 is LGPL, because Marpa::R2 was. I want to switch to the Perl license (dual-license GPL and Artistic License 1.0) because 1.) The licensing discussion for Libmarpa, and its resulting switch to the MIT license, revealed that more liberal licensing works well, and is what the community wants. 2.) For Perl modules, the FSF recommends this "Perl license", because it fits the Perl community and the ecosystem. 3.) Perl.org encourages use of the Perl license and their legal advice focuses on it. I plan to change the licensing language to follow their guidelines <http://www.perlfoundation.org/cpan_licensing_guidelines> more closely. Your comments are very welcome. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "marpa parser" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
