From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jun 30 10:51:55 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA06663 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 30 Jun 1997 10:51:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from odin.INS.CWRU.Edu (odin.INS.CWRU.Edu [129.22.8.102]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA06658 for ; Mon, 30 Jun 1997 10:51:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: (chet@localhost) by odin.INS.CWRU.Edu (8.7.6+cwru/CWRU-2.3-ins) id NAA06544; Mon, 30 Jun 1997 13:51:37 -0400 (EDT) (from chet) Date: Mon, 30 Jun 1997 13:48:50 -0400 From: Chet Ramey To: jkh@time.cdrom.com Subject: Re: use of readline() Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, chet@odin.INS.CWRU.Edu Reply-To: chet@po.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>) Message-ID: <9706301748.AA06347.SM@odin.INS.CWRU.Edu> Read-Receipt-To: chet@po.CWRU.Edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > 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