Re: enable GNU readline by default?

[Ethan M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

On Thursday 08 June 2006 12:58 am, Petr Mikulik wrote:
> >> Now: What about enabling GNU readline by default as well?
> >
> > I agree that it would save work but the answer is no for the moment
> > because of the licence incompatibility.
>
> There is no problem with the license until you distribute the binary.
> Which normal users don't.

That is correct.  It seems reasonable to me that ./configure 
can just test for gnu readline and include it unless explicitly
disabled by the person doint the build.  Normal users building
from source have no license issues.  Distributions can make their
own call about  whether they feel constrained by the license
and want to instead use the built-in via 
   ./configure --with-readline
Last I checked, about half of the distros did and the other
half didn't

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Ethan A Merritt
Biomolecular Structure Center
University of Washington, Seattle WA