site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-dev@lists.apple.com Domainkey-signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=c0bQedAMqG4or8G5OqPbSWWli9elL3R7VBjrjxNjZid4OrrHq/FZyFRSb5ATcFcxBaHVgPSf+5ZFs/d77Ay0THyLMLEtI6cVxdJuSbC2bDL9lQeyz/JJE2Yh4pU0YLETY5l80PDLTDB7aDUOP1A8y1ILPClf3Us7Xn+/arI3Icg= On 5/8/05, Martin Costabel <costabel@wanadoo.fr> wrote:
Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: []
It would be nice if libreadline was LGPL'd, just as a large number of other GNU project libraries are, but it is not. Until then, we'll do our best to provide an unencumbered compatibility story with libedit, which is BSD licensed and, as Bill notes, not an Apple invention in any way (the *BSD projects have exactly the same concerns).
But do they install a symlink libreadline.dylib->libedit.dylib? This is the real problem we were discussing here. It is a technical installation problem, not a philosophical GPL vs BSD license problem.
The GPL creates business problems that the BSDL [and LGPL in this case] does not. It goes beyond "philosophy". The fact is libedit is designed to replace libreadline. So the symlink makes perfect technical sense. The problem is it doesn't offer 100% libreadline compatiblity yet. You are free to install and link against libreadline if you choose. Alternatively you could hack on libedit [probably not what you want to do :)]. Claiming that the symlink has no purpose is a bit subjective I'd say. For me I'd want software that CAN link libedit instead of libreadline to link libedit instead. To me that symlink saves me a lot of crap of fixing the project I wanted to build/link to use the correct library. I agree it's ugly and that it's a workaround but good luck getting every project that fits that pattern to bend to your will. Dave
-- Martin
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