Re: [Chicken-users] German Lisp Workshop at the CCC in Cologne

[Ivan Raikov]

  Apparently, there is also a Common Lisp implementation of readline
(MIT-licensed):

http://common-lisp.net/project/linedit/

It looks baroque, but perhaps bits and pieces can be scavenged for a
minimal Chicken readline.

  -Ivan

John Cowan <address@hidden> writes:

>
> 1) We could use editline (aka libedit) by default rather than readline.
>
> 2) We could supply two versions of the csi main program, one with
> readline support under the GPL, and one without under the BSD.  This is
> what Pure <http://pure-lang.googlecode.com> does.  It has to be done by
> the copyright holder, because a licensee can't just remove the feature
> from a program that requires it to be under the GPL and make it not GPL
> any more, but the licensor can violate their own license if they want.