viral license free fork of freebsd
Stefan Farfeleder
stefan at fafoe.narf.at
Sat Oct 6 02:14:56 PDT 2007
On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 03:35:46PM -0500, pfgshield-freebsd at yahoo.com wrote:
>
> While this topic comes up (again), it is my duty to remind you guys that the
> most serious viral license trojan in the tree is GNU readline, which being a
> library is under the GPL. More insight into the evilness of this is given by
> the FSF themselves:
> http://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-not-lgpl.html
>
> I understand vinum used to depend on GNU readline, but that is probably not the
> case anymore. Of course. if it's really that necessary we *should* be using
> NetBSD's libedit compatibility.
This patch used to work in June, I haven't tried it recently:
http://people.freebsd.org/~stefanf/readline.diff
NetBSD's readline compatibility layer is good enough for the base
utilities, but for ports I guess most of them will need to use the GNU
readline library.
Stefan
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