Bug#318083: [xml/sgml-pkgs] Bug#318083: libxml2-utils: Add history to xmllint --shell.

[Gabriel Forté]

On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 09:56:33PM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote:
> libreadline, which is used to make this functionnality, in
> licensed under the GPL, while libxml2 is not, making the binary, AFAIK,
> undistributable.

well, it seems the license (MIT/X, AFAIK) is GPL-compatible, as stated
here: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#GPLCompatibleLicenses

and, quoting libreadline's home-page
(http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/php/chet/readline/rltop.html#TOCIntroduction):

   Readline is free software, distributed under the terms of the GNU
   General Public License, version 2. This means that if you want to
   use Readline in a program that you release or distribute to anyone,
   the program must be free software and have a GPL-compatible license.


I'd also be glad if debian's xmllint binary had readline/history support
compiled in ;)
(I currently have to rebuild the package with it after each upgrade)

just my two cents. cheers,

-- 
Gabriel Forté <gab at chx-labs.org>