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

Thu Dec 29 15:28:58 CET 2011

Op donderdag 29 december 2011 14:39:19 schreef Colin Guthrie:
+> '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
+
+for fedora, the spec file requires readline-devel (that'll be version 6), but 
+the executable doesn't seem linked to it... perhaps they build either v6 or a 
+bundled version? but definately statically linked.
+