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> even RMS and the FSF use the more permissive LGPL for some of their work, most notably GNU Readline "Readline is free software, distributed under the terms o
by dzsekijo 11y ago
> even RMS and the FSF use the more permissive LGPL for some of their work, most notably GNU Readline
"Readline is free software, distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 3" -- https://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/php/chet/readline/rltop.html#Introduction https://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/php/chet/readline/rltop.html#Int...
- thegeomaster 11y agoOh, it was a slip of the tongue---I was thinking of this essay [1], and remembered it mentioning Readline and GNU libc, but for some reason thought that Readline was LGPL and libc was GPL (when the opposite is true and indeed makes way more sense). [1]: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-not-lgpl.en.html http://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-not-lgpl.en.html