Basil,
I agree that my reading might well be too restrictive. Indeed, if
anyone who understands these matters well can clarify, I'd appreciate
it.
Regarding the issue of syntax -- true in principle, but the fact of
the matter is that I started with the yacc grammar, not the reference
manual. As an earlier thread on this list discussed [1], the manual
is more of a guideline, then a specification. :-)
Cheers,
Yitzhak
[1]
http://caml.inria.fr/pub/ml-archives/caml-list/2008/06/b8d8bf2988e32db0cdb365037297996c.en.html
On Feb 15, 2010, at 2:52 PM, Basile STARYNKEVITCH wrote:
Yitzhak Mandelbaum wrote:
Hi,
I'd like to port the OCaml grammar to another parser generator.
However, the grammar is covered under the Q Public License, and the
terms of the license seem to require that the ported version only
be distributed as a patch to the current YACC grammar. Given that
I'm porting the grammar to serve as an example for a new parser
generator, distributing it as an unreadable patch is quite
impractical.
I am not sure that the licence requires you to make it a patch, if
the syntax of your grammar is sufficiently different. (for instance,
to port it to ANTLR/PCCTS). But I am not a lawyer.
If you intend to make a free software of your parser, perhaps the
easiest way would be to ask kindly the Ocaml team?
My feeling is that your understanding of Ocaml's licence is too
restrictive, especially if you play the free software game. But I am
not a lawyer!
And a language syntax is not described by a yacc grammar, but by a
human readable document. AFAIK, the Ocaml reference manual is not
covered by QPL.
Regards.
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