Re: Non-GPL readline

I think the answer for (1) is 'yes'. The answer for (2) depends on how big it is - if it's big, I don't think it makes sense to include it in PHP, as it's fairly esoteric. Including a pointer to where you can download it would be better (assuming you can download it in a way that is then usable by your code..?) As for 3, if we find a way that works to use the BSD readline clone, then dropping GNU readline support is fine. Zeev At 13:53 13/1/2001, Stanislav Malyshev wrote:

I've been able to make PHP work with libedit from NetBSD. It requires some patching (not much of that) and some features might be missing, but generally it works. Now the questions are: 1. Do we want non-GPL readline implementation? 2. Can we just rip the code out the NetBSD CVS (like I did) and insert it into PHP? License seems to allow this, provided all the thing with advertising clauses, but there might be things more complicated than I thought of. 3. If 1+2 is yes, do we want to still retain the GNU readline compatibility, or we want full replacement (with probably some functionality loss). Waiting for comments on this, -- Stanislav Malyshev, Zend Products Engineer stas@zend.com http://www.zend.com/ +972-3-6139665 ext.115 -- PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-dev-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For additional commands, e-mail: php-dev-help@lists.php.net To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net

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