Bug#318083: [xml/sgml-pkgs] Bug#318083: libxml2-utils: Add history to xmllint --shell.

2005-11-02 Thread Gabriel Forté 
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,

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Bug#318083: libxml2-utils: Add history to xmllint --shell.

2005-07-13 Thread Dominic Mitchell 

Subject: libxml2-utils: Add history to xmllint --shell.
Package: libxml2-utils
Version: 2.6.16-7
Severity: wishlist

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Would it be possible to add --with-history when compiling libxml2?
This would make xmllint --shell a lot nicer to work with.

Thanks,
-Dom

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.10-20050111-01-brie
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set 
to C)


Versions of packages libxml2-utils depends on:
ii  libc6   2.3.2.ds1-22 GNU C Library: Shared 
libraries an

ii  libxml2 2.6.16-7 GNOME XML library
ii  zlib1g  1:1.2.2-4compression library - runtime

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Bug#318083: [xml/sgml-pkgs] Bug#318083: libxml2-utils: Add history to xmllint --shell.

2005-07-13 Thread Mike Hommey 
tag 318083 wontfix
thanks

On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 11:50:52AM +0100, Dominic Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
wrote:
 Subject: libxml2-utils: Add history to xmllint --shell.
 Package: libxml2-utils
 Version: 2.6.16-7
 Severity: wishlist
 
 *** Please type your report below this line ***
 
 Would it be possible to add --with-history when compiling libxml2?
 This would make xmllint --shell a lot nicer to work with.

That would be nice, unfortunately, it is impossible for licensing
reasons. libreadline, which is used to make this functionnality, in
licensed under the GPL, while libxml2 is not, making the binary, AFAIK,
undistributable.

Sorry.

Mike


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