Change the License of the C++ parser

[Roberto Raggi]

On Thursday 17 November 2005 19:57, Mathieu Chouinard wrote:
> On November 17, 2005 11:41, Roberto Raggi wrote:
> > 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
>
> it would be nice if you added some documentations :)
> Mathieu

for Mathieu the lazy guy...

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html#GPLIncompatibleLicenses

Common Public License Version 1.0 
This is a free software license but it is incompatible with the GPL.
The Common Public License is incompatible with the GPL because it has various 
specific requirements that are not in the GPL.

For example, it requires certain patent licenses be given that the GPL does 
not require. (We don't think those patent license requirements are inherently 
a bad idea, but nonetheless they are incompatible with the GNU GPL.)

Eclipse Public License Version 1.0 
The Eclipse Public License is similar to the Common Public License, and our 
comments on the CPL apply equally to the EPL. The only change is that the EPL 
removes the broader patent retaliation language regarding patent infringement 
suits specifically against Contributors to the EPL'd program.

ciao robe