From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jun 23 19:24:14 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA14980 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 23 Jun 1997 19:24:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA14975 for ; Mon, 23 Jun 1997 19:24:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.5/8.7.3) id LAA21798; Tue, 24 Jun 1997 11:52:06 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199706240222.LAA21798@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: use of readline() In-Reply-To: <199706231337.XAA11174@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from Bruce Evans at "Jun 23, 97 11:37:05 pm" To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 11:52:05 +0930 (CST) Cc: gclarkii@main.gbdata.com, jkh@time.cdrom.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Bruce Evans stands accused of saying: > >> I belive that readline is the GNU version correct? > >> Would this not make all of these programs fall under the GNU Copyleft? > > > >No. Go read the LGPL. > > Go read the copyright that is actually attached to libreadline. Oh puke; it _is_ under GPL2. I'm sold folks; libedit it is 8) > Bruce -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[