Re: javax.swing.text.rtf.RTFEditorKit

[Dalibor Topic]

Sven de Marothy wrote:

> So more recently, I started looking into using something like JavaCC to
> create a proper parser. (Although I haven't gotten further with that
> either.)

Unless Sun's parser generator has surprisingly recently switched away 
from Sun's funny but broken non-nuclear BSD, or as Sun calls it, BSD+, 
to a sane license while I wasn't looking[0], I'd recommend using ANTLR 
for proper parsers, as it's in the public domain, well maintained and is 
already used successfully by gjdoc.

Their licensing on JavaCC seems to be all over the place, really. The 
web site for  JavaCC [1] claims it is under the GPL-compatible BSD 
license[2], but that's not the case. In reality, parts of it are under 
some obscure Sun closed source license that has nothing to do with BSD 
at all, for example [3] contains all sorts of funny claims, like 
restricting use, export, claims to have patents covering it, without 
licensing the patents to the users, and so on.

A classical case of Sun claiming one thing in their 'PR' and a 
completely different thing in the actual licensing terms of the code. 
They seem do be doing that all the time recently, which is a bit 
disappointing from a company that should clearly know better. :(

cheers,
dalibor topic

[0] http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2004/10/msg00190.html
[1] https://javacc.dev.java.net/
[2] http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.html
[3] 
https://javacc.dev.java.net/source/browse/javacc/src/javacc.java?rev=1.1&view=auto&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup