Re: GNU readline and BSD license

On Fri, 29 Dec 2000, Tom Lane wrote:

> Lamar Owen <lamar(dot)owen(at)wgcr(dot)org> writes:
> > How different is the feature set?
>
> I was going to ask the same thing. If it's an exact replacement then
> OK, but I do not want to put up with non-Emacs-compatible keybindings,
> to mention just one likely issue.
>
> The whole thing really strikes me as make-work anyway. Linux is GPL'd;
> does anyone want to argue that we shouldn't run on Linux? Since we
> are not including libreadline in our distribution, there is NO reason
> to worry about using it when it's available. Wanting to find a
> replacement purely because of the license amounts to license bigotry,
> IMHO.

Actually, IMHO, the pro to moving to libedit is that we could include it
as part of the distribution and make history a *standard* feature
... licensing started the thread, but I think its gone beyond that were we
have a way of providing an feature that is currently option as part of the
system as a whole ...

"one less package that you need to install" ...