GNU bug report logs - #15221
provide a mechanism to activate readline systemwide

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Package: guile;

Reported by: arne.babenhauserheide <at> kit.edu

Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2013 13:05:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

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From: Tom Tromey <tom <at> tromey.com>
To: Mark H Weaver <mhw <at> netris.org>
Cc: 15221 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Tom Tromey <tom <at> tromey.com>
Subject: bug#15221: reiterating the request
Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2018 17:10:19 -0600

>>>>> "Mark" == Mark H Weaver <mhw <at> netris.org> writes:

Mark> I'm sympathetic to the desire to enable it by default, but I'm not sure
Mark> how to navigate the license issue, namely that GNU Readline is
Mark> GPL-licensed, whereas Guile is LGPL-licensed.

Surely doing it only when run interactively poses no problem.

However, another approach is to ask RMS.  It is absurd for two GNU
programs not to be able to interoperate in a logical way.

Tom
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