readline update?

[Rahul Sundaram]

On 07/03/2009 03:57 PM, Miroslav Lichvar wrote:
> I'd like to update readline to the latest version 6.0. The problem is
> that the license was changed to GPLv3+ and we have some GPLv2 packages
> using readline.
> 
> A possible replacement is the editline library which provides a
> compatible interface and is licensed under BSD, unfortunately it
> doesn't handle UTF-8.
> 
> Are we stuck with readline 5.2? Suggestions?

Have you talked to upstream and checked on what they suggest that we do
about this?

Rahul