Re: [ng-spice-devel] Re: [ng-spice-frontends] libreadline, input handling and multi-threading


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From Paolo Nenzi <pnenzi@ieee.ing.uniroma1.it>
Date Tue, 25 Apr 2000 07:54:46 +0200 (CEST)
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> > You did a gfreat job but there is a problem with libreadline is  is GPL
> > and cannto be linked to ngspice as this software is copyrighted with a BSD
> > license incompatible eith GPL. There was a discussion months ago about
> > this library. 
> 
> Ouch!!! I should look before I leap :-). Well, I've got it working for
> me here but for the moment it looks like I can't distibute it until
> I/we get this issue resolved.
I am so curious... ;-)


> > This reopens the letter issue. I have a draft on my disk,
> > can I send this one to Berkeley ?
> 
> Do you have an archive of the previous discussion? If you do I would
> appreciate it if you could tar-gzip it and send it to me by private 
> email.
There are archives, if yoiu send a message to ng-spice-deve-help@ and
ng-spice-help@ you will discover how to get list archive. I am putting on
the web a mhonarc interface and a faq-o-matic.  The latter will probably
be on line this evening, I am testing it. 

> Hmm, I'm not too keen to jump into this until the license issue has
> been resolved. I would not like to start a BSD v GPL flame war here
> but I really think that SPICE's BSD license has caused the current 
> situation where there are numerous incompatible versions of spice
> and where most of the enhancements have not been released to the
> public.

Well, you can release the code under the new release of BSD which is not
incompatible with the old one and the GPL and then convert it to GPL.

Paolo



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