Josh Paetzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there a way to ensure that GNU readline isn't used (even though > support may have been compiled in?). I'm experiencing a licensing > problem
Note that the GPL (the license terms of readline) is like any other valid copyright license in that it only restricts acts covered by copyright. You have no responsibility to prevent others from using a GPL-covered work. Anyone may use a GPL-covered work they receive for any purpose without further permission; nobody needs a copyright license for that (despite what some copyright holders might prefer). Copyright covers acts of copying and distribution, so you *do* need license to do those things with someone's work. > but my code is proprietary That's unfortunate. I hope you can fix that. > and hence, if cmd uses readline, I can't use cmd. Not true; you can derive from and redistribute cmd, so long as you comply with the license on cmd. -- \ "What I have to do is see, at any rate, that I do not lend | `\ myself to the wrong which I condemn." -- Henry Thoreau, _Civil | _o__) Disobedience_ | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
