Re: [Axiom-developer] RE: gcl-2.6.8pre on MAC OSX 10.2

[root]

> > "Page, Bill" <address@hidden> writes:
> > | The MAC server on which this was compiled did not have an X-windows
> > | environment so it was not possible to compile and test Axiom Graphics
> > | and the Hyperdoc browser. Also native MAC OSX10 apparently does not
> > | have support for the pts virtual terminal interface so it is not
> > | possible yet to compile clef (the replacement for readline).
> > I never quite understood why readline needs to be replaced.  Do you know?
> readline is licensed under GPL (not LGPL). When Axiom was a commercial 
> product, it could not use readline. Now it cannot use readline, too, 
> because it is BSD-licensed (arrgh).

Ooops. Wrong list. This discussion should go to axiom-legal
which was created for the express purpose of keeping legal
issues out of the developer list. Please use that list instead.

I had an email discussion with Richard Stallman about the issue of
using GPL and BSD licensed programs together in a non-commmercial
setting. His statement is that the two licenses are compatible and he
sees no license problems that arise in either direction.

That said, I beg of you not to continue a legal discussion in
the developer list.

Tim