[Python-Dev] DRAFT: python-dev Summary for 2006-01-01 through 2006-01-15 (original) (raw)

Stephen J. Turnbull stephen at xemacs.org
Mon Jan 30 07:39:06 CET 2006

"Martin" == Martin v Löwis <martin at v.loewis.de> writes:

Martin> So would you just like to see the readline module to be
Martin> removed from the Python distribution?

No. I would much prefer that the readline module be made compatible with libedit (or whatever the pseudo-readline library is called) and that is what I recommend in the short term. Alternatively, libedit should be made more completely compatible with libreadline.

In the long term, I would like to see your interpretation established in law (either by legislation or by precedent), but I certainly don't want any precedent set by having the PSF and the FSF at odds with each other.

Martin> So it is the act of linking (and probably to some extent,
Martin> the act of compiling) that creates the derivative work.

The FSF did not accept that position when Aladdin advanced it in the case of Ghostscript. Cf. my reply to Tim Peters.

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