Change the License of the C++ parser

Roberto Raggi roberto at kdevelop.org
Thu Nov 17 17:42:02 UTC 2005


On Thursday 17 November 2005 17:27, Anne-Marie Mahfouf wrote:
> Another question about parsers in general. Someone told me that Eclipse
> uses some free parsers, can't we take one from there instead of writing our
> own? Just asking, I don't mean to flame or anything!
no we can't ... the eclipse license is incompatible with GPL :( more info on 
eclipse.org

ciao robe


>
> Anne-Marie
>
> On Thursday 17 November 2005 07:03, Roberto Raggi wrote:
> > Hi guys!
> >
> > I'm considering to change the license of my C++ Parser. The first version
> > of my parser was released under GPL, then at some point I changed it to
> > LGPL to be able to use it in other projects (e.g. umbrello, and a couple
> > of commercial applications). The problem is LGPL is not good enough for
> > my goal :( I mean I really want to push the parser and create a small
> > community that use it and help me to extend it. The problem with LGPL is
> > the static linking. I don't want to create problems to the company using
> > it, so I want to change the license for LGPL to BSD (or BSD like
> > license). I'm sure it'll be easy for companies and other projects to
> > contribute it.
> >
> > I would like to know what you guys think about it... and what is (for
> > you) the best license for the C++ engine (the parser, the preprocessor
> > and the type checker)?
> >
> > ciao robe
> >
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