Re: GNU readline and BSD license

On 29 Dec 2000, Michael Alan Dorman wrote:

> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> > If there is something functionally wrong with Readline then let's talk
> > about it, but let's not replace it with something because some PHP dude
> > said that RMS said something.
> 
> ncftp used to be for non-commercial use only and had hooks to be
> linked against readline.  RMS threatened legal action, which caused
> the developer to change the license to GPL, which was what RMS wanted.
Problem with ncftp was developers distributing binaries commercially which
were linked to libreadline.

As I said before, postgres doesn't have this problem since neither RPMs
nor other binaries do that.