On 1/17/06, Stephen J. Turnbull <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>>>> "Anthony" == Anthony Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Anthony> It sounds like configure needs to grow a test to detect > Anthony> that a "libreadline" it finds is actually the crackful > Anthony> "libedit" and refuse to use it if so. > > FYI: Real libreadline is GPL, and rms made a point of forcing > (Aladdin-licensed) Ghostscript to remove stanzas from the Makefile > that allowed linking to it as a user option. Ie, this particular pain > in the neck is deliberate FSF policy, to encourage use of the GPL.
Can we just all agree that RMS is an asshole now? Bah. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
