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Note that readline is GPL, not LGPL. Alternatives with less restrictive licenses include editline and linenoise.

• yarrel 9y ago
  s/less restrictive/less respecting of their user's freedom/
  • mikegerwitz 9y ago
    Readline's has an important history, resulting in CLISP being licensed under the GPL: http://clisp.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/clisp/clisp/doc/Why-CLISP-is-under-GPL http://clisp.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/clisp/clisp/doc/Why-...
    • wruza 9y ago
      >”The direct result of this is that we now have an Objective C front end. They had wanted to distribute the Objective C parser as a separate proprietary package to link with the GCC back end, but since I didn't agree this was allowed, they made it free.” The direct result of this is half-a-trillion dollar company that wrote its own toolchain from scratch and released it to the public for free, giving birth to thousands of modern language projects, while GNU Objective-C is still a dead crap with no demand.
  • linksnapzz 9y ago
    Or, "less inclined to genuflect in the direction of the FSF"
    • jwilk 9y ago
      I had to look it up in a dictionary: 1. (intransitive) To bend the knee, as in servitude or worship 2. (intransitive, figuratively) To behave in a servile manner; to grovel. Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/genuflect https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/genuflect