Hi Grzegorz
Grzegorz Prokopski wrote:
Hello!
A friend of mine reminded me lately, that libreadline is GPL not LGPL
library so it can only be used in GPL-compatible software.
However AFAIK GPL is incompatible with MPL type licenses like IPL
used by FireBird
(http://firebird.sourceforge.net/index.php?op=doc&id=ipl )
I am Cc:ing debian-legal to be corrected if I am wrong somewhere.
Sure sounds a good idea to get it checked out, I know that it's a
debatable topic on readline, particularly since it's in a shared
library, and we don't redistribute readline with our binaries, since
it's already included in linux.
Now - I've had a bit of a further read, and from what I've read, it's
probably ok for me to build and to distribute my stuff, since I don't
distribute readline as well, but apparently the debate seems to be if
there is a conflict for debian to ship both readline and firebird together.
A legal opinion sounds good (Im glad there's someone to provide one).
I'd suggest using editline as a replacement, which is available
under BSD-type license.
About libeditline I can read:
Description: Line editing library similar to readline
This is a line-editing library. It can be linked into almost any
program to provide command-line editing and recall.
It is call-compatible with a subset of the FSF readline library, but it
is a fraction of the size (and offers fewer features).
This is the runtime library only.
So I think it would be good to link that lib and use it's features and
NOT to GNU libreadline.
However it may be not 100% drop-in replacement.
a bit more about it, libeditline:
This is a line-editing library. It can be linked into almost any program
to provide command-line editing and recall. It is call-compatible with a
subset of the FSF readline library, but it is a fraction of the size
(and offers fewer features).
Basically I'm happy to swap to editline.
Call compatible is all I need.
Cheers & thanks.
Mark
