[Gllug] Which laptop?

Jon Masters jonathan at jonmasters.org
Thu Aug 30 16:16:09 UTC 2001


On 30 Aug 2001 16:25:17 +0100, Richard Clamp wrote:

> >                and writing your own programs with readline is no bad idea.
> 
> *cough* Only if you really wanted to give away all your code under the
> GPL.  readline, though being a library, is released under the GPL, not
> the LGPL.  This is possibly why it's not used as widely as it
> otherwise would be.

...and thus readline is a magnificant and well designed masterpiece,
forcing people to have sense in software distribution. Oh joy.

--jcm



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