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


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From Erik de Castro Lopo <erikd@zip.com.au>
Date Mon, 24 Apr 2000 22:07:13 +0000
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Paolo Nenzi wrote:
> 
> 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.

> 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.

<snip>

> Go on, poly statements are important, but watch out at the license under
> you will cover your code.

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.

Ciao,
Erik
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     Erik de Castro Lopo     erikd@zip.com.au
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