Bug#750643: antlr: missing licence for PyANTLR

[Thorsten Glaser]

wolfgang haefelinger dixit:

>Discussed this with the original author of Antlr. The lights are on red for
>a new 2.7 release and I'm currently not willing to create a fork.

Sure. Let’s just add editorial notes from Terence and you to clean up
the licence situation. We will put that into debian/copyright, and you
(Terence, probably) can put it up on the website, and that should be
everything anyone could ever need.

>which is why the “LICENSE.txt” of Antlr itself does not
>> work for you. (Side fact: it’s misnamed because PD means absence of
>> the need for a licence.)

>What file name does Debian then propose?

This is not about Debian (they do not ship those files anyway, but
collect all licencing information in a central file) but about PD
versus licences. But this does not matter – we’re not re-releasing,
so we just put the updated info “somewhere”, and everything is good.

Besides, with the proposed language I sent to Terence, there would
be a licence, so this point is moot anyway.

>>   1) antlr/actions/python/
>>   2) lib/python/

>My "statement" is then:
>
> o All source code packed with (1) is released in terms of the BSD software
>license.

That is one of these?
* http://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause
* http://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-2-Clause

> p All source code packed with (2) is released in terms of the GPL software
>license.

This also, unfortunately, has got several options…
* GPL, any version
* GPL version 2 only
* GPL version 2 or later
* GPL version 3 only
* GPL version 3 or later
* GPL version (1 or) 2 or 3 only

>So, can you help me reformulate them so that they look proper and can be
>used in an "official" statement?

Yes, of course. Just solve the above choices ;-)

>Second, how shall I transmit this statement to Debian? There is a
>"half-backed" website [1] - maintained by me -  where I could put those
>license details.

Just per eMail to this bugreport is enough. It would be good
if you can PGP sign it, but that’s not been required until now.

If you update a website, sure, put it up there. Otherwise, I’d
suggest (once finished) you also send it to Terence, so it can
be shown at the official Antlr site.

Thanks for your patience!

bye,
//mirabilos
-- 
<igli> exceptions: a truly awful implementation of quite a nice idea.
<igli> just about the worst way you could do something like that, afaic.
<igli> it's like anti-design.  <mirabilos> that too… may I quote you on that?
<igli> sure, tho i doubt anyone will listen ;)