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Dear JavaCC community,
Please let me apologize in advance for yet another change in support for JavaCC; I realize that past changes have been somewhat disruptive. The good news, however, is very good.
I am pleased to announce that Sun Microsystems has put JavaCC into Open Source under the BSD license. The JavaCC project site has gone live this week (together with many other Java technologies) at Sun's new home for Java community activity: java.net. The new and future home for JavaCC is:
http://javacc.dev.java.net/
As many of you may recall, JavaCC was originally written here in Sun
Labs but was eventually licensed to Metamata (and subsequently Webgain)
for free binary distribution. Those companies eventually disappeared,
so a year and a half ago we recalled the sources and began to provide
an interim home for binary download and mailing lists. The goal all
along has been to move JavaCC into Open Source, and we are all very
happy to see this goal finally achieved.
Sreeni and Sriram will now be able to continue support for JavaCC with more participation from you, the community, in Open Source. Please take a moment to visit javacc.dev.java.net to have a look.
We at Sun Labs will continue to support binary download and mailing lists from www.experimentalstuff.com as long as it makes sense to do so. Meanwhile, your comments on the future disposition of experimentalstuff.com support for JavaCC will be welcome. You might address your thoughts to me directly, if you wish, and I'll get back to the community as events unfold.
I'm pretty far behind on things here at the lab, but when I get a minute I'll add some information about Open Source to the JavaCC page on experimentalstuff.com for new visitors.
Thanks once again to Sriram, Sreeni, Theo, and all the other helpful JavaCC people for their support and patience. It has been a pleasure to host the JavaCC community during this period of transition.
Michael Van De Vanter, Sun Labs
Michael L. Van De Vanter, Ph.D. Email: michael.vandevanter@sun.com
Sun Microsystems Laboratories Tel: +1 650 336 1392
2600 Casey Avenue, M/S UMTV29-112 Fax: +1 650 969 7269
Mountain View, CA 94043 USA URL: http://research.sun.com/people/mlvdv
Last modified: Thu Jul 24 13:15:45 PDT 2003
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