Brandorr wrote: > On 9/12/07, Dermot McCluskey <Dermot.McCluskey at sun.com> wrote: >> Prashant Srinivasan wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> Is there a planned time line for inclusion of GNU readline into Nevada? >> It's held up while we draw up new guidelines for GPL >> software, specifically whether we can install GPL >> libraries in the default locations. > > Who is "we" in this case? What are the issues with installing in the > default locations?
"We" meant Sun. Stephen Hahn and David Comay and others are trying to iron out the policy. Basically, there was a feeling in Legal that if a library is in /usr/lib, customers might accidentally start using it, without realizing the implications of linking to GPL code. I'm not keen on stop-gap measures like installing in /usr/gnu. Aside from the extra work of cleaning up later, /usr/gnu is primarily intended for name-conflicting software that has to be g-prefixed in /usr. - Dermot
