[Ecls-list] success, was: broken local installation of ecl

[Oliver Kullmann]

I've heard about these statements,
for example made at the readline homepage:

http://tiswww.case.edu/php/chet/readline/rltop.html

but for example see

http://linuxgazette.net/issue38/kidd.html

or (newer)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Readline

Both sources say what I said: You can use readline like gcc.

Maybe there would be some fighting involved: But this seems to me
part of (real) democracy to me.

Oliver


On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 10:23:40PM +0300, Anton Vodonosov wrote:
> on Thursday, August 28, 2008, 10:15:15 PM Oliver wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 07:37:14PM +0200, Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll wrote:
> >> Clisp is linked with it. ECL has _never_ and will never use
> >> it, because it carries a license
> 
> > apparently you mean GPLv2
> 
> >> that would automatically turn ECL
> >> into a GPL project, preventing any commercial use.
> >>
> 
> > Sorry, but that's nonsense.
> 
> > By using gcc (GPL) or readline or
> > whatsoever you do not need to take over the GPL, since it's just a tool.
> > These things are discussed at many places at length, see for example
> > http://www.softwarefreedom.org/resources/2008/compliance-guide.html.
> > (Just an example: FreeBSD uses readline.)
> 
> > So, please, say what you really mean, and this open on the project 
> > web page: You fight certain forms of open source/ free software, and 
> > thus you will not use some software (don't hide behind fake technical argumentation).
> > (I'm not arguing here against political decisions: The point is honesty.)
> >
> 
> Take a look, Clisp is GPL'ed exactly because of readline
> 
> http://clisp.cvs.sourceforge.net/*checkout*/clisp/clisp/doc/Why-CLISP-is-under-GPL
> 
> Best regards,
> -Anton

-- 
Dr. Oliver Kullmann
Computer Science Department
Swansea University
Faraday Building, Singleton Park
Swansea SA2 8PP, UK
http://cs.swan.ac.uk/~csoliver/