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

[Maarten Vanraes]

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?