Duncan Booth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Josh Paetzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Is there a way to ensure that GNU readline isn't used (even though >> support may have been compiled in?). I'm experiencing a licensing >> problem, I'd like to use the "cmd" module, for example, but my code is >> proprietary and hence, if cmd uses readline, I can't use cmd. > > I think you have misread the GPL: just because your non-GPL code *can* be > used with something covered by the GPL doesn't mean your code is infected > by the GPL. Your code doesn't require a GPL module to run (you can use a > version of cmd compiled without readline), and you aren't attempting to > distribute it with a GPL module, so you don't need to care how the end user > chooses to run it.
Indeed -- I recall coming across some commercial control & data-acquisition software which was distributed with an inferior readline work-alike library, but came with detailed instructions for how to use GNU readline instead. All users who had the time and good sense presumably linked with readline proper. John -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
