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List:       freebsd-hackers
Subject:    Re: use of readline()
From:       Chet Ramey <chet () odin ! INS ! CWRU ! Edu>
Date:       1997-06-30 17:48:50
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> > Go read the copyright that is actually attached to libreadline.
> 
> Right you are, unfortunately - I went looking for it in
> the wrong place and assumed the LGPL when I couldn't find
> a COPYING file.
> 
> This is unusual, of course, since the FSF switched to the LGPL for
> just about every other GNU lib I can find and I can only assume that
> either the author was feeling particularly restrictive or, in fact,
> nobody ever bothered to update the copyright. :)

I was neither feeling restrictive nor inattentive.  The last time I
asked the FSF people, they requested that I continue to release readline
under the GPL.

(Sorry if I sound short; I'm trying to dig out from the mail accumulated
during a (refreshingly) long trip to Europe.)

-- 
``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer

Chet Ramey, Case Western Reserve University	Internet: chet@po.CWRU.Edu

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