Tom Lane wrote:
"Andrew Dunstan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
The page links to this: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html which
lists the BSD licence without the advertising clause as a GPL-compatible
free software license, of which it says: "This means you can combine a
module which was released under that license with a GPL-covered module to
make one larger program."
You are misinterpreting the intent of that page completely.
What the GNU people mean by "GPL compatible" is that you can combine
GPL code with code licensed with a compatible license, and then
redistribute the result UNDER THE GPL. (There are many licenses for
which this is not so, and you basically couldn't redistribute such a
combined work at all.) There is no situation in which they intend to
let you redistribute combined works under the other license.
Ok, I accept this. Their wording is certainly unfortunate, especuially
when you combine it with what is said obn the redline home page.
Incidentally, there is a place that libedit is being maintained,
apparently: http://www.thrysoee.dk/editline/
Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to build on mingw :-(
cheers
andrew
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