Re: GNUPLOT [does not] break GPL
Edward Betts <edward@hairnet.demon.co.uk> writes:
> 15:37:30 $ ldd `which gnuplot`
> libvga.so.1 => /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libvga.so.1 (0x4000c000)
> libreadline.so.2 => /lib/libc5-compat/libreadline.so.2 (0x40048000)
> libm.so.5 => /lib/libm.so.5 (0x4006a000)
> libc.so.5 => /lib/libc.so.5 (0x40073000)
> libncurses.so.3.0 => /lib/libncurses.so.3.0 (0x40131000)
>
> GNUPLOT is not GPL, so it can not be linked with libreadline.
| gnuplot (3.5beta6.340-5) frozen unstable; urgency=low
|
[...]
| * doesn't link to gnu's readline library anymore, since it probably
| violates the library copyleft (gnuplot is "free" but non-gpl); gnuplot
| uses now its internal readline facility instead
|
| -- tibor simko <simko@debian.org> Fri, 27 Mar 1998 10:24:00 +0100
And BTW, gnuplot doesn't break anything. We would be violating the
GNU GPL by distributing a gnuplot linked with readline but gnuplot is
not per se breaking the GNU GPL.
--
James
~Yawn And Walk North~ http://yawn.nocrew.org/
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