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Add explanation of licensing issues to the description of the

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readline interface.
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Jim Blandy 1999-09-23 05:36:00 +00:00
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@ -67,6 +67,26 @@ to activate readline is now
This should work at any time, including from the guile prompt.
To avoid confusion about the terms of Guile's license, please only
enable readline for your personal use; please don't make it the
default for others. Here is why we make this rather odd-sounding
request:
Guile is normally licensed under a weakened form of the GNU General
Public License, which allows you to link code with Guile without
placing that code under the GPL. This exception is important to some
people.
However, since readline is distributed under the GNU General Public
License, when you link Guile with readline, either statically or
dynamically, you effectively change Guile's license to the strict GPL.
Whenever you link any strictly GPL'd code into Guile, uses of Guile
which are normally permitted become forbidden. This is a rather
non-obvious consequence of the licensing terms.
So, to make sure things remain clear, please let people choose for
themselves whether to link GPL'd libraries like readline with Guile.
** regexp-substitute/global has changed slightly, but incompatibly.
If you include a function in the item list, the string of the match