Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc/mk

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 10:42:52PM +0100, Jonathan Perkin wrote:
> As for licensing issues, you'd have to work pretty hard to avoid any GPL
> software from pkgsrc, and for such a special case there is always the
> ability to set your own choice via READLINE_DEFAULT.

The problem here is not GPL software in general, but that readline is a
GPL *library*. That makes all license compatibility issues a lot more
problematic, consider linking OpenSSL and readline into the same binary
for one example.

Joerg