Thanks Alexander,

thanks for this plausible explanations!

> Not a lawyer here, but PicoLisp 21 does **not** need to be GPL'd.
> 
> Everyone seems to confuse "linking to a GPL'd
> library that exists on the host computer" VS
> "linking to a GPL'd library that's included
> with the source code".


> In PicoLisp's case (pil21), libreadline is
> only linked to at compile time. It is not
> being distributed with PicoLisp in binary or
> source form.

Minor note:

It is not even linked at *compile* time, but - dynamically - at runtime
(shared library).

☺/ A!ex

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