hi all, > at yesterday's PilCon it turned out that pil21 has a serious licence problem. >
We already discussed this pseudo problem with Alex in Delta Chat thread. If I understand now correctly this is not a problem and Pil21 should keep using readline GPL library and be covered by MIT/X11 licence. 1. Lets take a real world example, get all packages of ArchLinux required by readline, "Required By (133)" on the right: https://www.archlinux.org/packages/core/x86_64/readline/ https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/mruby/ Mruby, ruby's official mini implementation from Mr. Matsumoto covered by MIT licence and have readline as dependency. I assume Matsumoto knows everything about licences. 2. Wikipedia text for MIT says: "... The MIT license is compatible with many copyleft licenses, such as the GNU General Public License (GPL); ..." (mike) -- UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:picolisp@software-lab.de?subject=Unsubscribe
