On 9/16/07, David.Comay at sun.com <David.Comay at sun.com> wrote:
> > Are there any downsides to placing readline in /usr/sfw until the GPL
> > guidelines are ironed out?
>
> No new components should be placed under /usr/sfw under any
> circumstances.
>
> However since readline is a GNU component as defined by
>
> http://directory.fsf.org/GNU/
>
> it's eligible to be placed under /usr/gnu/lib. Dermot is the one
> leading the effort to get readline aggregated into OpenSolaris and so
> he can comment on his thoughts about using that directory for the
> interim.
>
GNU readline is GPL and can't be linked into CDDL applications. It's
pointless to include it in Solaris. If you want readline use the BSD
readline library
Cheers,
William
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