Readline Response


To ng-spice@ieee.ing.uniroma1.it
From Paolo Nenzi <pnenzi@ieee.ing.uniroma1.it>
Date Sat, 14 Aug 1999 19:51:34 +0200 (CEST)
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Dear all,

I have written to the FSF asking them the permission to use Readline in
ng-spice (which is a GPL covered library). The original spice license
forbids charging for the code without express permission of University of
California at Berkeley (UCB), making the product in contrast with the GPL,
so we cannot include Readline library in the code.

I am afraid that we cannot include this package (and meny others) in our
simulator, but I think that we should respect their decision.

May be that someone with a legal backgroung can help us finding a way.

Paolo



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