[Box Backup] Box Backup licensing

Reinhard Tartler siretart at tauware.de
Thu Feb 4 12:23:52 GMT 2010


On Do, Feb 04, 2010 at 00:57:08 (CET), Martin Ebourne wrote:

> On Wed, 2010-02-03 at 22:53 +0100, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
>> Excatly. I wonder if the boxbackup license could have an other exception
>> for gnu readline in addition to OpenSSL. This way I could enable
>> readline support for the debian and ubuntu packages.
>
> No that doesn't work. It's not the bb licence that's incompatible any
> more, but the gnu readline (vanilla GPL) is incompatible with OpenSSL
> (combined licence). You can't link the two together into the same
> executable if you're distributing them, and there's nothing bb can do to
> change the readline licence of course.

ok, point taken

> There is already a solution of course, I added libedit support ages ago
> which is just the same as readline but under a BSD licence, simply link
> to that instead (use the configure switch).

yes, the debian package used this since the very first upload. However,
BSD editline still lacks functionality present in GNU readline.

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Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4



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