On Saturday 18 January 2003 10:00, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 12:32:34PM -0500, Jeff Licquia wrote: > > > Perhaps not directly. Who knows how many people who would otherwise be > > > spending time on GPL software will instead be stuck porting > > > free-but-GPL-incompatible software to use GNU TLS? I find that hard to > > > justify. > > > > Well, this is the GNU project we're talking about. How much > > GPL-incompatible software do they distribute? > > None that I know of. Are you ascribing to the GNU project the position > that "if you're not one of us, we don't care what hoops you have to jump > through, even if those hoops eat up time you would have spent working on > GNU software"?
yes, see libreadline. *LOTS* of software would use it if it was not GPL.

