RE: [E-devel] patch to make eesh even more obscure

[Peter K. <pet...@ax...>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: enl...@li...=20
> [mailto:enl...@li...] On=20
> Behalf Of Kevin Brosius
> Sent: 08 December 2003 14:03
> To: E Develop
> Subject: Re: [E-devel] patch to make eesh even more obscure
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> Peter Kjellerstedt wrote:
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: enl...@li...
> > > [mailto:enl...@li...] On
> > > Behalf Of Robert G. Werner
> > > Sent: Monday, December 08, 2003 00:49
> > > To: Kim Woelders
> > > Cc: enl...@li...
> > > Subject: Re: [E-devel] patch to make eesh even more obscure
> > >
> > > Kim Woelders wrote:
> > > [snip]
> > > I know someone proposed using gettext in eesh and that had to be
> > > removed because of GPL issues.  Has anyone looked at libedit?
> > > Asterisk uses it to get completion and scrollback=20
> > > functionality and If
> >=20
> > > I read the license correctly it is BSD compatable?  If the=20
> > > license is compatable,  I could look at the old gettext=20
> > > patch and try to replicate it with libedit (not that it=20
> > > would work after I was done with it but it might sort of=20
> > > look like c or something).
> >=20
> > In a recent mail to the linux kernel list Theodore Ts'o mentioned
> > the following "readline (GPL'ed), editline (BSD licensed), or
> > libedit (BSD licensed), which all export the same interface."
> > So going by that it should be possible to use either editline
> > or libedit without needing to make any changes to the eesh
> > source.
> >=20
> > //Peter
>=20
> Well, Theodore seems to believe that his usage is ok[1]. =20
> However, that doesn't make it ok.  Seems to me that he=20
> could distribute source and possibly get away with that=20
> stance.  However, distro's that try to package his library=20
> may be in trouble[2].  Hard to tell.

However, what Theodore tries to achieve is somewhat different,
in that he wants to be able to use either of readline, editline=20
and libedit depending on what is available at runtime.
For eesh it would be what is available at link time, and in=20
this case it would only support editline or libedit, and=20
thus be no different from linking to any other BSD licensed=20
library.

> --=20
> Kevin
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> [1] http://kevb.net:3000/lurker/message/20031206.153845.d22e268f.html
> [2] http://kevb.net:3000/lurker/message/20031206.164737.141191de.html
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//Peter