Package with no upstream (ftp)

David Cantrell dcantrell at redhat.com
Fri Jul 20 16:56:24 UTC 2012


On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 03:15:54PM +0000, Ben Boeckel wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 18:21:32 GMT, David Cantrell wrote:
> > I do dislike having two line editing libraries, but whatever.
> 
> libreadline being full-fledged GPLv3+ makes it hard to justify in BSD
> projects. For such a commonly used library, it being GPL rather than
> LGPL makes little sense to me, but that's the way it is.

I understand the reason, but it's less of a technical reason and more just
a licensing annoyance.  That's all I wanted to point out.

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David Cantrell <dcantrell at redhat.com>
Supervisor, Installer Engineering Team
Red Hat, Inc. | Westford, MA | EST5EDT


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