Am 03.09.2013 10:02, schrieb Alex Peshkoff:
> The main reason why do we include libedit at all is licensing
Yes we had a discussion on this topic with a debian maintainer back in
2002 when we had to replace calls to readline with editline.
> - built
> into all known to me distros libreadline (it's present cause bash needs
> it) has GPL (not LGPL!) license, and therefore we can't use it in out
> packages. No matter of this licensing issue almost all (correct be if
> I'm wrong) distros use --with-system-editline switch and distribute
> firebird packages violating GPL.
I believe they really use editline instead of readline in this case.
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