Re: BNFC license change

[Andreas Abel]

Peter Gammie's take on the license change:

On 2020-10-27 00:09, Peter Gammie wrote:
> ...
>
> Apropos BNFC: I don’t recall what I did exactly. IIRC there were quite a
> few bugs to fix. I think I bashed it into usability for the compiler
> course in 2004.
>
> I don’t mind what licence you release BNFC under. These days I tend to
> think you may as well go to the limit, e.g. https://unlicense.org/ —
> take a look at sqlite in particular — but I’m not a lawyer and I don’t
> know what your objectives are. An alternative would be GPL2 + linking
> exception, like GCC and the Linux kernel.
>
> ...
>
> cheers,
> pete
>
>> On 27 Oct 2020, at 01:06, Andreas Abel <ab...@chalmers.se> wrote:
>>
>> Hello Pete,
>>
>> ...
>>
>> We are currently planning change of license from GPL-2 to a more permissive licence like MIT or BSD, for the sake of a greater impact of BNFC.  As one of the original developers, would you support this move?
>>
>> If you have objections or encouragement, please let us know, or join the discussion at
>>
>> https://groups.google.com/g/bnfc-dev/c/0yVy5sXChE0
>>
>> Btw, what did you contribute back then to BNFC?  I saw e.g. the Alex 2 backend...  (Trying to reconstruct history.)
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Andreas (BNFC maintainer 2017--)


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[Ulf Norell]

I have no objections to a more permissive licence.

/ Ulf

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