From: Aaron Patterson <aaron@...>
Date: 2009-09-09T02:24:36+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:25488] Re: [Feature #2032] Change the license to "GPLv2+ or Ruby's original".

On Sep 7, 2009, at 7:43 PM, Leonard Chin wrote:

> If readline's change in license is the primary reason for reevaluating
> Ruby's licensing,
> why not consider the option of replacing readline?
>
> Although far from mature, Luis Lavena and others were working on a
> pure Ruby clone
> of readline: http://github.com/luislavena/rb-readline/tree/master
>
> With more work, this could provide a reasonable happy alternative.

IIRC, ruby on OSX links against EditLine (libedit) instead of  
readline.  libedit uses a BSD license.  Could we just depend on  
libedit instead of readline?

   http://www.thrysoee.dk/editline/

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Aaron Patterson
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