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FAQ: Remove outdated sections about the license
Reported-by: Josh Triplett <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Franz Schrober <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Christopher Li <[email protected]>
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@@ -42,30 +42,6 @@ A. See the previous question: I personally think that the front end
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they want to have a proprietary back-end, that's ok by me too. It's
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their loss, not mine.
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At the same time, I'm a big believer in "quid pro quo". I wrote the
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front-end, and if you make improvements to the semantic parsing part
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(as opposed to just using the resulting parse tree), you'd better
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cough up. The front-end is intended to be an open-source project in
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its own right, and if you improve the front end, you must give those
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improvements back. That's your "quid" to my "quo".
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Q. So what _is_ the license?
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A. I don't know yet. I originally thought it would be LGPL, but I'm
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possibly going for a license that is _not_ subsumable by the GPL.
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In other words, I don't want to see a GPL'd project suck in the
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LGPL'd front-end, and then make changes to the front end under the
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GPL (this is something that the LGPL expressly allows, and see the
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previous question for why I think it's the _only_ thing that I will
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not allow).
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The current front-runner is the OSL ("Open Software License", see
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http://www.opensource.org/licenses/osl.php), together with a note on
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what makes source derivative and what does not to make it clear that
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people can write back-ends for it without having to make those
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back-ends available under the OSL.
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Q. Does it really parse C?
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