Re: [Firebird-devel] Warning: readline is GPL - incompatible with MPL

["Joe Moore" <joemoore@iegrec.org>]

Nick Phillips wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 07, 2002 at 02:01:31PM -0600, Joe Moore wrote:
>> So the user, exercising his right to modify FireBird, makes the 1-line
>> change (replace -leditline with -lreadline) to use GNU Readline.  He
>> never distributes his modified FireBird++, but is in violation of the
>> GPL in the privacy of his $HOME?
> 
> No, he's only *using* readline.

Linking them doesn't create a combined work?  (According to the GPL FAQ, it
does)

--Joe