Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2007 10:49:04 +0200 From: Stefan Farfeleder <stefan@fafoe.narf.at> To: pfgshield-freebsd@yahoo.com Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: viral license free fork of freebsd Message-ID: <20071006084903.GA1254@lizard.fafoe.narf.at> In-Reply-To: <980821.94716.qm@web32708.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <980821.94716.qm@web32708.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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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
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