Re: GNU readline and BSD license

> On Sat, 23 Dec 2000, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> 
> > Rasmus Lerdorf, the big PHP developer, told me that the existence of GNU
> > readline hooks in our source tree could cause RMS/GNU to force us to a
> > GNU license.
> > 
> > Obviously, we could remove readline hooks and ship a BSD line editing
> > library, but does this make any sense to you?  It doesn't make sense to
> > me, but he was quite certain.

> Unfortunately he's right, since GPL software is incompatible with any
> non-GPL software. Stallman publicly admitted that he intentionally
> released readline under GPL, not LGPL, to force more people into GPLing
> their code. 

OK, but does shipping our code with hooks obligate us?  We don't ship
readline.

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