>>>>> "M" == M <mal@lemburg.com> writes:
M> It's the view of the FSF, AFAIK. You can't distribute an
M> application in binary which dynamically links against
M> libreadline (which is GPLed) on the user's machine, since even
M> though you don't distribute libreadline the application running
M> on the user's machine is considered the "whole" in terms of the
M> GPL.
M> FWIW, I don't agree with that view either, but that's probably
M> because I'm a programmer and not a lawyer :)
I'm not sure I agree with that view either, but mostly because there
is a non-GPL replacement for parts of the readline API:
http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/downloads/editline.html
Don't know anything about it, so it may not be featureful enough for
Python's needs, but if licensing is really a problem, it might be
worth looking into.
-Barry
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