On Friday 27 June 2014 18:12:34 Hans Aberg wrote: > On 27 Jun 2014, at 14:40, Christian Schoenebeck <[email protected]> wrote: > > 1. Strong separation between "lexer" and "parser" has its historical > > > > reasons, but it makes things often quite problematic. > > Bison is synced in the first hand with Flex, but the latter does not > currently belong to the GNU project, and has a different license, BSD. But > if that changes, a more radical integration might be possible.
Flex is released under the 2-clause BSD license, which is compatible with the GPL. So that is not the problem. And whether it is part of the GNU project or not is not relevant. There rather seems to be no interest on GNU side to design a modern parser generator. Best regards, Christian Schoenebeck _______________________________________________ [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-bison
