From: Yitzhak Mandelbaum <yitzhakm@CS.Princeton.EDU>
To: Basile STARYNKEVITCH <basile@starynkevitch.net>
Cc: Caml-list List <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] free, open-source version of OCaml grammar?
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 15:00:27 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <78212D6C-9400-42CB-892F-9F9FB068D334@CS.Princeton.EDU> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B79A5E6.9080407@starynkevitch.net>
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.
>
>
> --
> Basile STARYNKEVITCH http://starynkevitch.net/Basile/
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Yitzhak Mandelbaum
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-15 19:32 Yitzhak Mandelbaum
2010-02-15 19:52 ` [Caml-list] " Basile STARYNKEVITCH
2010-02-15 20:00 ` Yitzhak Mandelbaum [this message]
2010-02-15 20:07 ` David Allsopp
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