Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 01:32:00 +0700 (NSS) From: Max Khon <fjoe@iclub.nsu.ru> To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>, current@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@FreeBSD.ORG, imp@FreeBSD.ORG, ache@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: libedit replacement for libreadline Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0107190128370.44289-100000@iclub.nsu.ru> In-Reply-To: <p05101004b77a150da1f1@[128.113.24.47]>
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hi, there! On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > >Personally, I think it's worth it to get rid of a GNU dependency > >in the base system, as well as reducing the overall amount of > >functional code duplication. > > I may be misunderstanding what you mean here, but I don't think > we should replace libreadline with libedit. However, I do find > this very interesting, as some of my friends and I have a program > that we're going to switch from "gnu" to "bsd" licensing, and it > would be nice if we could use this libedit instead of libreadline. I read on pgsql-hackers mailinglist that only static linking with libreadline will infect your binaries with GPL virus. btw PostgreSQL already has support for NetBSD's libedit /fjoe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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