'Twas brillig, and Maarten Vanraes at 29/12/11 10:50 did gyre and gimble: > Op donderdag 29 december 2011 10:32:21 schreef Maarten Vanraes: >> Hi, >> >> MariaDB noted that it is undistributable if you use their code (GPLv2) to >> link with readline v6 (GPLv3). >> >> however I noted that the readline v6 we ship has mentioned as license >> GPLv2. (likely incorrect) >> >> should we go over all our packages who use readline to check if they all >> are valid? >> >> is there some kind of way we can allow this? >> >> as a status side note on MariaDB, i have some bugs fixed, but it's sitting >> here, just waiting for this License issue to be resolved... > > i just found out that debian seems to be maintaining readlinev5 as readline- > gplv2-dev > > i wonder if we can switch our readline to something like that, so we don't > have to maintain it ourselves?
Seems like a good idea generally. I mean it's not like that many people will be super interested in which version of readline shipped... (obviously some will, but it'll be a minority). See what Fedora is doing too perhaps? Col -- Colin Guthrie colin(at)mageia.org http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited http://www.tribalogic.net/ Open Source: Mageia Contributor http://www.mageia.org/ PulseAudio Hacker http://www.pulseaudio.org/ Trac Hacker http://trac.edgewall.org/
