Re: Antlr license

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On 11/03/2017 04:04 PM, Fernando Nasser wrote:
> Hi guys,
> 
> 
> Our antlr package has "Public Domain" in the License tag.  However the
> author does add some conditions for credit being given, headers in
> source files be kept, etc. Please see the LICENSE.txt  and  README.txt
> files.
> 
> 
> This is what probably caused SPDX to create a specific "license"
> denomination for this:
> 
> 
> ANTLR Software Rights Notice <https://spdx.org/licenses/ANTLR-PD.html>
> |ANTLR-PD|
> 
> 
> Note: There is no reference to this license or anything specific to
> Antlr in OSI.
> 
> 
> Although it is true that it is public domain, we need to make sure his
> credit and header conditions are met.

There is a reasonable argument to be made here that these "conditions"
are optional requests, however, given the ambiguity, it's probably
safest to treat it as a unique permissive license.

I have added it to the table, and adopted the SPDX shortname (ANTLR-PD).

~tom
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