On Wed, 24 Sep 1997 13:54:46 -0400 (EDT) 
 Jim Wise <jimw@numenor.turner.com> wrote:

 > Why are we adding this?  libedit gives us the same functionality, is
 > already in the tree, and is not copylefted?  I thought our goal was to
 > add as little new copylefted software as possible?

It's needed by the new GDB.  Note that the current GDB source has
an old version of readline in the sources.

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