Re: libreadline

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 09:35:42AM -0500, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> 
> Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com> writes: 
> >   Hum, isn't there a more obvious problem with libreadline ? Last time
> > I checked it was GPL not LGPL, so no GNOME library should require it
> > (though it's fine for apps to require it), otherwise the problems associated
> > with strictly GPL'ed libraries arose.
> >   Can someone clarify our requirement on libreadline ?
> 
> librep probably uses it for its Lisp command prompt. I think this
> means any app using the readline rep module must be GPL; I doubt any
> app other than sawfish will use rep, let alone its readline
> module. ;-)

  Okay :-) I'm getting a bit paranoid ...

Daniel

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