Per Bothner wrote: > Audrius Meskauskas wrote: > >> There is the IDL language desciption for the JavaCC parser generator >> at https://javacc.dev.java.net/files/documents/17/2916/IDLjj, inside >> JavaCC project The license is not stated explicitly (also not stated >> in the file header), but the license of the whole javacc project is BSD. > > > However, a lot of the javacc source files contain copyright notices > that contradict it being Free Software. Arguably, the top-level license > overrides, but the situation is a mess long ignored by javacc developers: > > https://javacc.dev.java.net/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=69 > > It seems javacc is very lackadaisical when it comes to licensing > issues, so ClassPath (as a GNU project) needs to be very cautious > about including javacc code. Well, the JavaCC need not go into Classpath source code itself, the but generated classes would go, and JavaCC would be a necessary tool to build that compiler. That Per wrote is unexpected for me. If this is a problem (potentially could be), we should look for another parser generator or probably just parse with the StringTokenizer or StreamTokenizer. Vittorio, wait a little bit with JavaCC and try to find other similar really Free tools. It is a kind of not a very honest behavior, to put the BSD on the top and something incompatible in the file headers. I am sorry, I did not look myself. Audrius.
