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().

> licence it can't be used, because GPL is a virus, it
> propagates to anything it touches.