Re: gnu readline / license

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

On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 09:51:29AM +0100, Lars Hecking wrote:
> Johannes Zellner writes:
> > Hello,
>  
>  Johannes! Where have you been all the time? Good to hear from you :)

hehe. I've a real job, a wife and yet a child is on it's way.
Priorities have shifted ...

> [...]
> > Is there a chance to get the license changed, so that debian can ship
> > gnuplot with the gnu readline?
>  
>  The gnuplot license? Not much of a chance. However, I think this could
>  work if readline was distributed under the LGPL instead of GPL.

hmm. I guess they won't change the readline license. What about
dlopen'ing libreadline after gnuplot starts, would that solve the
license problems?

-- 
Johannes
Women are probably the main cause of free software starvation.