Org-mode parser in Rust

Re:Org-mode parser in Rust by Lord_Nightmare on Monday April 15, 2019 @12:15AM (#19663089)

I was excited, but the fact that this is (well, WAS) violating the GPL by being MIT licensed was a major downer. I'd be very interested in an org-mode parser which is NOT GPL-licensed, specifically because it is effectively impossible to integrate GPL code as a plugin (unless your editor is also GPL), which was one of the stated goals of this project.

Hence, someone would have to properly clean-room reverse-engineer org-mode in order to achieve 100% compatibility, or make a somewhat-incompatible implementation based on the reference docs instead.

As I understand it, Markdown has significant limitations which org-mode doesn't have, but is under a 3BSD-style license. (It also has issues of x+1 slightly incompatible implementations)

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Re:Org-mode parser in Rust by juki on Monday April 15, 2019 @12:55AM (#19663193)

I believe Gitlab and Github both render Org files with OrgRuby[1], which is MIT.

[1]: https://github.com/wallyqs/org-ruby

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Re:Org-mode parser in Rust by black-tea on Monday April 15, 2019 @02:26AM (#19663474)

Why can't you make a GPL plugin for whatever editor you use?

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Re:Org-mode parser in Rust by Lord_Nightmare on Tuesday April 16, 2019 @02:29AM (#19671562)

It depends on whether it is an essential dll or an optional plugin. I probably could have phrased that better originally.

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