Date: Mon, 30 Jun 1997 13:48:50 -0400 From: Chet Ramey <chet@odin.INS.CWRU.Edu> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, chet@odin.INS.CWRU.Edu Subject: Re: use of readline() Message-ID: <9706301748.AA06347.SM@odin.INS.CWRU.Edu> In-Reply-To: Message from jkh@time.cdrom.com of Mon, 23 Jun 1997 10:01:03 -0700 (id <9964.867085263@time.cdrom.com>)
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> > Go read the copyright that is actually attached to libreadline. > > Right you are, unfortunately - I went looking for it in > the wrong place and assumed the LGPL when I couldn't find > a COPYING file. > > This is unusual, of course, since the FSF switched to the LGPL for > just about every other GNU lib I can find and I can only assume that > either the author was feeling particularly restrictive or, in fact, > nobody ever bothered to update the copyright. :) I was neither feeling restrictive nor inattentive. The last time I asked the FSF people, they requested that I continue to release readline under the GPL. (Sorry if I sound short; I'm trying to dig out from the mail accumulated during a (refreshingly) long trip to Europe.) -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer Chet Ramey, Case Western Reserve University Internet: chet@po.CWRU.Edu
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