* Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [001229 15:43] wrote: > Lamar Owen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > How different is the feature set? > > I was going to ask the same thing. If it's an exact replacement then > OK, but I do not want to put up with non-Emacs-compatible keybindings, > to mention just one likely issue. > > The whole thing really strikes me as make-work anyway. Linux is GPL'd; > does anyone want to argue that we shouldn't run on Linux? Since we > are not including libreadline in our distribution, there is NO reason > to worry about using it when it's available. Wanting to find a > replacement purely because of the license amounts to license bigotry, > IMHO. Rasmus Lerdorf warned one of you guys that simply linking to GNU readline can contaminate code with the GPL. Readline isn't LGPL which permits linking without lincense issues, it is GPL which means that if you link to it, you must be GPL as well. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED]] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk."
- Re: [HACKERS] GNU readline and BSD license Tom Lane
- Re: [HACKERS] GNU readline and BSD license Bruce Momjian
- Re: [HACKERS] GNU readline and BSD license Fabrice Scemama
- Re: [HACKERS] GNU readline and BSD license Alfred Perlstein
- Re: [HACKERS] GNU readline and BSD license Bruce Momjian
- Re: [HACKERS] GNU readline and BSD license The Hermit Hacker
- Re: [HACKERS] GNU readline and BSD license Alfred Perlstein
- Re: [HACKERS] GNU readline and BSD lice... The Hermit Hacker
- Re: [HACKERS] GNU readline and BSD lice... Lamar Owen
- Re: [HACKERS] GNU readline and BSD... Tom Lane
- Re: [HACKERS] GNU readline and... Alfred Perlstein
- Re: [HACKERS] GNU readline and... Tom Lane
- Re: [HACKERS] GNU readline and... Adam Haberlach
- Re: [HACKERS] GNU readline and... Tom Lane
- Re: [HACKERS] GNU readline and... Adam Haberlach
- [HACKERS] Re: GNU readline and... mlw
- Re: [HACKERS] GNU readline and... Peter Bierman
- Re: [HACKERS] GNU readline and... Alex Pilosov
- Re: [HACKERS] GNU readline and... Bruce Momjian
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