[pkg-firebird-general] [firebird-devel] Editline digging into not just cmdline history (was qmtesting)
Damyan Ivanov
dmn at debian.org
Mon Dec 22 22:01:51 UTC 2008
Hello Mark,
-=| Mark O'Donohue, Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 09:10:46AM +1100 |=-
>
> On 14/12/08 01:52, Damyan Ivanov wrote:
>>
>> It is my impression that the library Firebird has in extern/editline
>> and libeditline are two different things. The former _seems_ to have
>> NetBSD roots, while the later is written by Rich Salz[1]
>
> So now I've been through the firebird cvs logs :-). It seems the
> history of editline/readline/libedit is:
>
> [...history research...]
>
>> so it seems a clone of the NetBSD libedit.
>
> yes we are currently using libedit from BSD
>
> The libedit package we are using is just a direct copy from :
> http://www.thrysoee.dk/editline/
>
> But to make life exciting, we use it in a directory called editline, the
> name of another package providing the same functions. But certainly if
> anyone knows another possible readline alternative please do tell us so
> we can try that one as well!
:)
>> By the way, the COPYING file in extern/editline starts with:
>> ....
>>
>> Note that "the above copyright notice" seems to be missing, which (1)
>> makes it hard to confirm if this is really NetBSD libedit, and (2)
>> Firebird project seems to not actually have permission to redistribute
>> extern/editline since the copyright notice is not retained. *sigh*
>
> I think the licences are ok, as all the source files have the correct
> license attribution in them, although you are correct the COPYING file
> itself is not complete.
Right, I only looked at COPYING :| *ashamed*
> It also looks as if netbsd has changed the license in their files
> to a 2 part one.
>
> http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/lib/libedit/?sortby=date#dirlist
>
> While I have spent this much time on it, I might straighten out our
> build for fb3, call the directory libedit, and use the latest one from:
> http://www.thrysoee.dk/editline/
>
> I have sent an email to Jess Thrysoee about the license, if he needs to
> make a change we can incorporate that latter version when it comes
> through.
>
> That ok?
That - perfect :)
Thank you very much for the efforts.
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