Thanks much. libreadline is GPL, hunspell 1.2.8 is licensed under MPL 1.1/GPL 2.0/LGPL 2.1, will check with legal how static libreadline + 3 license hunspell linking turns out to be.
Suresh Garrett D'Amore wrote: > Jyri Virkki wrote: >> >> On Jan 14, 2009, at 5:23 PM, James Carlson wrote: >>> >>> As for libreadline, I had thought that we had other applications >>> delivering in Solaris now that used it, and just had an ugly static >>> linkage for legal reasons. (Really, we should just ship the darned >>> thing already.) >>> >>> Have you asked the SFW gatekeepers about libreadline status? >> >> Correct, SFW has readline available at build time for applications to >> statically link in, even though it is not shipped as a shared library. >> >> >> > This is probably redundant to checks others have made, but I *presume* > hunspell is therefore GPL? One cannot deliver a binary statically > linked against GPL (isn't readline GPL?) unless said binary is also GPL. > > -- Garrett >
