On Sat, Feb 10, 2024 at 08:45:32AM +0100, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > The readline library is released under the full GPL, not the LGPL. If > > > you dynamically link it with a program, then you can only release that > > > program under terms compatible with the GPL. This is an intentional > > > choice. > > tomas@tuxteam.de wrote: > > Practically it doesn't change much, but for some lawyer at Intel it might. > > A substantial problem can be that libreadline became "GPLv3 or later" a > few years ago and that GPLv3 is not compatible with GPLv2-only (i.e. not > "or later"). The main reason is in the patent-fighting restrictions in > GPLv3, which would be forbidden extra restrictions under GPLv2. Yep, thanks for pointing that out. The "main" program would then have to be GPLv3 compatible. There's no perfect world, sigh. Cheers -- t
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