<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi Kenneth,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Re-reading your reply I concluded already that you meant just that.</div><div class="">Thanks for clearing this up.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Regards,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Marc</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 10 Feb 2017, at 10:08, Kenneth Lundin <<a href="mailto:kenneth@erlang.org" class="">kenneth@erlang.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class="">In my previous answer I was not thinking about removing syntax tools from the Erlang distribution, I just explained<br class=""></div>that syntax_tools and other Erlang applications included in the Erlang distribution CAN BE LEFT OUT (if there are no dependencies<br class=""></div>to them). Syntax_tools and the Compiler for that matter are applications that typically are used during development and not in runtime.<br class=""><br class=""></div>I know there are exceptions to this where a system generate new Erlang modules in runtime.<br class=""></div>In that case you get a dependency to the Compiler application but not necessarily to Syntax_tools.<br class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Note that the current Erlang/OTP distribution is a development and runtime system for Erlang and that the idea is that the user<br class=""></div><div class="">create his own release which contain a subset of the components (Erlang applications) included in the distribution.<br class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">/Kenneth, Erlang/OTP Ericsson<br class=""></div><br class=""><br class=""><div class=""><br class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 9:08 AM, Marc Worrell <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:marc@worrell.nl" target="_blank" class="">marc@worrell.nl</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word" class="">Hi,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We use syntax_tools extensively in Zotonic for compiling templates and dispatch rules to Erlang modules.</div><div class="">This is done runtime, so we would prefer that syntax_tools stays in the Erlang distribution.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Regards,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Marc Worrell</div><div class=""><div class="h5"><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 10 Feb 2017, at 09:02, Kenneth Lundin <<a href="mailto:kenneth@erlang.org" target="_blank" class="">kenneth@erlang.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="m_-3760906066714871934Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class="">Hi,<br class=""><br class=""></div>The license of Syntax tools is changed to Apache-2 and LGPL (it is the users choice) in the master branch (which is the way to<br class=""></div>the next major release (OTP 20) in end of June.<br class=""><br class=""></div>And yes you can leave out syntax tools for most usage. It is mostly used during development for some non mandatory tools.<br class=""></div><div class="">For example it is used by edoc the tool for generating documentation from the source code.<br class=""></div><br class=""></div>It is unlikely to be used in a deployed server.<br class=""><br class=""></div>/Kenneth, Erlang/OTP Ericsson<br class=""></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 9, 2017 at 10:25 PM, chris casilli <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:christopher.casilli@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">christopher.casilli@gmail.com</a><wbr class="">></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hello,<br class="">
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I noticed that lib/syntax_tools uses LGPL-2.0+ license.<br class="">
How does this effect the overall Apache-2.0 license of OTP.<br class="">
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Can this component be left out. Is a different version available that uses Apache-2.0 license.<br class="">
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Kind Regards,<br class="">
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Chris Casilli<br class="">
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