On Thu, 2007-09-20 at 20:44 +1000, Matthew Hannigan wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 08:43:09PM +1000, skaller wrote:
> > Another *famous* example is 'readline()', the code that
> > does line editing for bash. Why is Ocaml's top level
> > so crappy, with no editing? Because of readline()'s GPL
> 
> Surely that's not a good reason anymore; there are non-GPL
> workalikes to readline().

Well one might ask Inria why they don't use it?

[BTW: Python does, yet some maintains FFAU licence]

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