Re: Stuff starting with S (and T)

On Tue, Apr 18, 2000 at 02:24:59PM -0600, Nathan Torkington wrote:
> Stephen Zander writes:
> > AFAIK, libreadline is GPL *not* LGPL
> 
> Yup, Version 2 of the GPL.
> 
> I assume the problem with the GPL is that it would require you to give
> away the source code with a binary SDK.  I think that's a price that's
> acceptable.  One of the installation options for the binary SDK could
> be "do you want to install the source for the GNU libraries?"

Huh? The source is avaliable. There is nothing to say you must
distribute the source with the binary.

However users should be made aware that some distributions inside
the SDK are GPLd and given the option not to install them.

Graham.