Danek Duvall <danek.duvall at sun.com> wrote:

> On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 01:43:56PM +0800, steve xue wrote:
>
> > Danek found this also, he mentioned that since libguilereadline will be
> > shipped here that will have some potential risk about being conflict to
> > some future individual 'readline' library porting.
>
> It wasn't so much that there was a conflict, just that libguilereadline
> links against the readline library, which we don't (currently) ship.  So
> there's not much point in shipping libguilereadline, either.  Though
> readline could be linked in statically until such time as we make a dynamic
> readline library available.

If this is a license related problem, then there is no difference between 
static and dynamic linking. The GPL just disallows GPLd code to be "used" by 
non-GPL code. 

J?rg

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