[asterisk-dev] readline support in asterisk

[Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk]

>> While I realize that readline support is not getting into asterisk
>> any time soon...
>
> What do you mean, not anytime soon?  It was ALREADY in Asterisk
> previously and was removed due to licensing concerns.  The current
> editline code is in there intentionally, because it is more freely
> licensed than readline.

Interesting
Fetched from http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+GPL+Compliance

"Asterisk ships with Editline, a NetBSD library statically linked  
into the asterisk binary. This library is released under the 4 clause  
license that NetBSD uses to this day which is incompatible with the  
GPL. In order to resolve the licensing conflict Editline must be  
replaced. Without resolving this conflict, the GPL license of the  
Asterisk distribution is technically invalidated which means nobody  
has the right to use, modify nor distribute Asterisk with the  
exception of Asterisk Business Edition customers (commercially  
licensed).

However, the GPL license is not invalidated on those files which do  
not touch Editline which means it is possible to replace Editline  
with a library that is licensed under a GPL compatible license such  
as GNU Readline, and thereby get an Asterisk package for which the  
GPL license applies. In other words is not necessary to wait for  
Digium to fix this issue, it can be done by anyone with the skill to  
replace the offending library."

roy
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