On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 09:56:33PM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: > libreadline, which is used to make this functionnality, in > licensed under the GPL, while libxml2 is not, making the binary, AFAIK, > undistributable.
well, it seems the license (MIT/X, AFAIK) is GPL-compatible, as stated here: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#GPLCompatibleLicenses and, quoting libreadline's home-page (http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/php/chet/readline/rltop.html#TOCIntroduction): Readline is free software, distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2. This means that if you want to use Readline in a program that you release or distribute to anyone, the program must be free software and have a GPL-compatible license. I'd also be glad if debian's xmllint binary had readline/history support compiled in ;) (I currently have to rebuild the package with it after each upgrade) just my two cents. cheers, -- Gabriel Forté <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
