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Xtext/Xpand 1.02 License Question [message #692524]

Mon, 04 July 2011 16:42

Christian Ammann

Messages: 21
Registered: July 2010

Junior Member

Hi,

i have a question about the Xtext/Xpand/Eclipse licenses: When i understand it right, Xtext, Xpand and Eclipse are distributed under the "Eclipse Public License" which is almost like the BSD-License.

Is it therefore legal to:

- take a Eclipse IDE
- install Xtext/Xpand
- install my own custom dsl and corresponding code generator
- put the corresponding new eclipse distribution on a homepage, ship it to customers, etc. ? (in binary form without providing the source code)

According to this blog entry:

http://blog.efftinge.de/2009/01/xtext-new-parser-backend.html

There were/are still some parts in Xtext/Xpand which don't use the "Eclipse Public License", thats why im asking.

Best regards,

Christian

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Re: Xtext/Xpand 1.02 License Question [message #692545 is a reply to message #692524]

Mon, 04 July 2011 17:40

Alexander Nittka

Messages: 1193
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

Hi,

as far as I know, there is no license problem for your "finished" Xtext plugin. During development time (when writing the grammar and generating the Xtext artefacts) you use the Antlr parser generator (which cannot be shipped under EPL), but the generated code is "clean".

Alex

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Re: Xtext/Xpand 1.02 License Question [message #692560 is a reply to message #692524]

Mon, 04 July 2011 17:35

Sebastian Zarnekow

Messages: 3118
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

Hi Christian,

what you describe is perfectly legal. The plugin that Sven mentioned is
the org.antlr.generator which is not necessary to "run" your language.

Regards,
Sebastian
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On 04.07.11 18:42, Christian Ammann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> i have a question about the Xtext/Xpand/Eclipse licenses: When i
> understand it right, Xtext, Xpand and Eclipse are distributed under the
> "Eclipse Public License" which is almost like the BSD-License.
>
> Is it therefore legal to:
>
> - take a Eclipse IDE
> - install Xtext/Xpand
> - install my own custom dsl and corresponding code generator
> - put the corresponding new eclipse distribution on a homepage, ship it
> to customers, etc. ? (in binary form without providing the source code)
>
> According to this blog entry:
>
> http://blog.efftinge.de/2009/01/xtext-new-parser-backend.html
>
> There were/are still some parts in Xtext/Xpand which don't use the
> "Eclipse Public License", thats why im asking.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Christian

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Re: Xtext/Xpand 1.02 License Question [message #693387 is a reply to message #692524]

Wed, 06 July 2011 11:26

Karsten Thoms

Messages: 762
Registered: July 2009
Location: Dortmund, Germany

Senior Member

It is even legal to ship the Antlr lib with the complete Eclipse IDE and create a commercial product that contains all of them.
The thing with Antlr is that Eclipse policies just do not allow to host the Antlr library at the Eclipse Orbit, since it failed IP approval. Antlr uses itself some library which does not comply with Eclipse IP policies, but also this is developed with a liberal license and allowed to be packaged, but just not at Eclipse. This is also one of the reasons why itemis provides its own distribution bundled with that.

Kind regards,
~Karsten

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