Hello! A friend of mine reminded me lately, that libreadline is GPL not LGPL library so it can only be used in GPL-compatible software. Under the Subject: "Bug#150941: firebird-utils: Autocompletion and last commands used on ISQL" 26.VI.2002 I can read in a reply from Mark O'Donohue <mark.odonohue@ludwig.edu.au> : > I would like isql-fb (console) to let me relaunch last typed commands, [...] readline is already in firebird2 :-). However AFAIK GPL is incompatible with MPL type licenses like IPL used by FireBird (http://firebird.sourceforge.net/index.php?op=doc&id=ipl ) I am Cc:ing debian-legal to be corrected if I am wrong somewhere. I'd suggest using editline as a replacement, which is available under BSD-type license. About libeditline I can read: Description: Line editing library similar to readline This is a line-editing library. It can be linked into almost any program to provide command-line editing and recall. It is call-compatible with a subset of the FSF readline library, but it is a fraction of the size (and offers fewer features). This is the runtime library only. So I think it would be good to link that lib and use it's features and NOT to GNU libreadline. However it may be not 100% drop-in replacement. Regards Grzegorz B. Prokopski
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