Re: [PATCH] readline: Support libedit.

2013-10-17 Thread Karl Berry
a licensing violation by linking to both libreadline (GPLv3+) and a libvirt.so containing virtualbox code (LGPLv2-only) at the same time (those two licenses are incompatible). For the record ... as far as I know, LGPLv2, both -only and -later, is compatible with GPLv-anything (in

Re: [PATCH] readline: Support libedit.

2013-10-17 Thread Mats Erik Andersson
onsdag den 16 oktober 2013 klockan 15:26 skrev Eric Blake detta: > On 10/16/2013 02:08 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > > > > Isn???t libedit supposed to be a clone of Readline just for the sake of > > avoiding the GPL? > > > > Why not let its maintainers fix it, if they really want it to behave > >

Re: [PATCH] readline: Support libedit.

2013-10-16 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Mats Erik Andersson skribis: > I can add, that in the GNU Inetutils project, the module "readline" > is useless precisely of the above reason. Given that Inetutils is unlikely to be used on non-GNU systems, what about supporting just Readline? Thanks, Ludo’.

Re: [PATCH] readline: Support libedit.

2013-10-16 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Eric Blake skribis: > On 10/16/2013 02:08 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> Mats Erik Andersson skribis: >> >>> I would like to see the module readline to access also libedit, >>> should libreadline be missing on a particular system. The patch >>> contained here successfully links against libedit o

Re: [PATCH] readline: Support libedit.

2013-10-16 Thread Mats Erik Andersson
onsdag den 16 oktober 2013 klockan 22:08 skrev Ludovic Courtès detta: > Mats Erik Andersson skribis: > > > I would like to see the module readline to access also libedit, > > should libreadline be missing on a particular system. The patch > > contained here successfully links against libedit on N

Re: [PATCH] readline: Support libedit.

2013-10-16 Thread Eric Blake
On 10/16/2013 02:08 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Mats Erik Andersson skribis: > >> I would like to see the module readline to access also libedit, >> should libreadline be missing on a particular system. The patch >> contained here successfully links against libedit on NetBSD and >> Debian GNU/kF

Re: [PATCH] readline: Support libedit.

2013-10-16 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Mats Erik Andersson skribis: > I would like to see the module readline to access also libedit, > should libreadline be missing on a particular system. The patch > contained here successfully links against libedit on NetBSD and > Debian GNU/kFreeBSD. Likewise, it still behaves correctly with > lib