From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 6 09:14:56 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8860116A417 for ; Sat, 6 Oct 2007 09:14:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from stefan@fafoe.narf.at) Received: from viefep25-int.chello.at (viefep18-int.chello.at [213.46.255.22]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBDDB13C480 for ; Sat, 6 Oct 2007 09:14:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from stefan@fafoe.narf.at) Received: from lizard.fafoe.narf.at ([213.47.85.26]) by viefep15-int.chello.at (InterMail vM.7.08.02.00 201-2186-121-20061213) with ESMTP id <20071006085800.NSPW28924.viefep15-int.chello.at@lizard.fafoe.narf.at>; Sat, 6 Oct 2007 10:58:00 +0200 Received: by lizard.fafoe.narf.at (Postfix, from userid 1001) id D2965C5A2; Sat, 6 Oct 2007 10:49:04 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2007 10:49:04 +0200 From: Stefan Farfeleder To: pfgshield-freebsd@yahoo.com Message-ID: <20071006084903.GA1254@lizard.fafoe.narf.at> Mail-Followup-To: pfgshield-freebsd@yahoo.com, freebsd-current@freebsd.org References: <980821.94716.qm@web32708.mail.mud.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <980821.94716.qm@web32708.mail.mud.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: viral license free fork of freebsd X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2007 09:14:56 -0000 On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 03:35:46PM -0500, pfgshield-freebsd@yahoo.com wrote: > > While this topic comes up (again), it is my duty to remind you guys that the > most serious viral license trojan in the tree is GNU readline, which being a > library is under the GPL. More insight into the evilness of this is given by > the FSF themselves: > http://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-not-lgpl.html > > I understand vinum used to depend on GNU readline, but that is probably not the > case anymore. Of course. if it's really that necessary we *should* be using > NetBSD's libedit compatibility. This patch used to work in June, I haven't tried it recently: http://people.freebsd.org/~stefanf/readline.diff NetBSD's readline compatibility layer is good enough for the base utilities, but for ports I guess most of them will need to use the GNU readline library. Stefan