Op donderdag 29 december 2011 14:39:19 schreef Colin Guthrie: > '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
for fedora, the spec file requires readline-devel (that'll be version 6), but the executable doesn't seem linked to it... perhaps they build either v6 or a bundled version? but definately statically linked.
