gnu readline / license

[Johannes Z. <joh...@ze...>]

Hello,

Debian's gnuplot comes w/o gnu readline, which is very bad in my
opinion. The reason is a license problem, which is documented by the
package maintainer Thimo Neubauer <th...@de...> (in
/usr/share/doc/gnuplot/README.Debian):

    libreadline
    -----------

    Yes, the built in readline of gnuplot is bad. However, libreadline
    cannot be used instead because it is licensed under the GPL, whereas
    gnuplot has special licenses (patches only). Linking those programs
    together is forbidden by the GPL. Please don't file bugs telling me to
    use libreadline in gnuplot...

Is there a chance to get the license changed, so that debian can ship
gnuplot with the gnu readline?

-- 
Johannes