David Henningsson escrigué:
The people we're messing it up for is not ourselves, it's for
applications which links with libfluidsynth AND are not GPL-compatible
(contains code released under MPL, a proprietary license etc). Assuming
Debian links with readline/liblash by default, they must provide their
own compiled version of libfluidsynth, which does not link with
readline/liblash.
Anyway this is a "gotcha" that we should mention somewhere in the
documentation.
Correct, this is a issue is for non-free applications linking to GPL
libraries, it's not an issue for us or Debian. License mixing always
have "gotchas" and tend to get a hot subject of discussion for non-lawyers.
FS has been in Debian for a long time, I doubt there's any problem with
the license, there's no privative software in Debian and I guess there's
a lot of packages in the same case, but you could ask your mentor in
case it worries you.
Does anyone use LASH? I would miss the readline support, that is for
sure.
As for readline, it could perhaps be replaced with editline, which is
under BSD license.
Looking it up in Debian (popcon) shows that:
104 people have installed lashd
688 people have installed liblash2
5790 people have installed libfluidsynth
Having support for editline wouldn't hurt at all as long as it has all
needed features, but you don't need to drop readline support, they're
call-compatible and so you can make it a build option.
I think LASH is already optional so we don't need to do anything, unless
you know of an alternative library that could be a second option, as
with readline.
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Bernat Arlandis i Mañó
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