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Re: PHPNuke license



David Turner <novalis@novalis.org> writes:

> 5. There's an exception.  
> 
> 6. The exception doesn't apply, because the Program itself (the GPL'd
> library) isn't itself interactive.
> 
> 7. Just about every user of GNU readline is violating the GPL.

The GPL'd library (readline) *is* interactive, so the exception *does*
apply.

You can't say that Readline-as-distributed is *and* that it isn't.
Pick one.  Either way, a program linking against it need not, on that
account, print out a no-warranty notice.





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