[Mageia-dev] License issues with readline (MariaDB)

Thu Dec 29 14:39:19 CET 2011

'Twas brillig, and Maarten Vanraes at 29/12/11 10:50 did gyre and gimble:
+> Op donderdag 29 december 2011 10:32:21 schreef Maarten Vanraes:
+>> Hi,
+>>
+>> MariaDB noted that it is undistributable if you use their code (GPLv2) to
+>> link with readline v6 (GPLv3).
+>>
+>> however I noted that the readline v6 we ship has mentioned as license
+>> GPLv2. (likely incorrect)
+>>
+>> should we go over all our packages who use readline to check if they all
+>> are valid?
+>>
+>> is there some kind of way we can allow this?
+>>
+>> as a status side note on MariaDB, i have some bugs fixed, but it's sitting
+>> here, just waiting for this License issue to be resolved...
+> 
+> i just found out that debian seems to be maintaining readlinev5 as readline-
+> gplv2-dev
+> 
+> i wonder if we can switch our readline to something like that, so we don't 
+> have to maintain it ourselves?
+
+Seems like a good idea generally. I mean it's not like that many people
+will be super interested in which version of readline shipped...
+(obviously some will, but it'll be a minority). See what Fedora is doing
+too perhaps?
+
+Col
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