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Date:      Sun, 01 Feb 2009 13:11:51 +0100
From:      Philipp Ost <pj@smo.de>
To:        bf2006a@yahoo.com
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org, giffunip@tutopia.com
Subject:   Re: Alternatives to gcc (was Re: gcc 4.3: when will it becomestandard compiler?)
Message-ID:  <49859187.2030407@smo.de>
In-Reply-To: <763068.66528.qm@web39104.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
References:  <763068.66528.qm@web39104.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

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bf wrote:
>>>The issue is a lot of open source applications that it can run are
>>>GPL licensed. I know there was an effort to replace the core OS apps
>>>that were GPL with 100% BSD licensed equivalents.
> 
> 
>>The effort didn't go far enough. Why haven't we removed GNU readline ?
> 
> 
>>Pedro.
> 
> 
> I think you know very well why we haven't removed that, and other
> pieces of software with the GPL from the tree: no one has written and
> submitted suitable replacements with more permissive licenses. [...]

What about the editline library <http://thrysoee.dk/editline/>?
I have to admit I don't know how well it works, but I haven't used 
readline either...

Philipp



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