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

Colin Guthrie mageia at colin.guthr.ie
Thu Dec 29 14:39:19 CET 2011


'Twas brillig, and Maarten Vanraes at 29/12/11 10:50 did gyre and gimble:
> 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?

Seems like a good idea generally. I mean it's not like that many people
will be super interested in which version of readline shipped...
(obviously some will, but it'll be a minority). See what Fedora is doing
too perhaps?

Col

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