Hunspell [PSARC/2009/026 FastTrack timeout 01/23/2009]

[Suresh Chandrasekharan]

Thanks much. libreadline is GPL, hunspell 1.2.8 is  licensed under MPL 
1.1/GPL 2.0/LGPL 2.1, will check with legal how static libreadline + 3 
license hunspell linking turns out to be.

Suresh

Garrett D'Amore wrote:
> Jyri Virkki wrote:
>>
>> On Jan 14, 2009, at 5:23 PM, James Carlson wrote:
>>>
>>> As for libreadline, I had thought that we had other applications
>>> delivering in Solaris now that used it, and just had an ugly static
>>> linkage for legal reasons.  (Really, we should just ship the darned
>>> thing already.)
>>>
>>> Have you asked the SFW gatekeepers about libreadline status?
>>
>> Correct, SFW has readline available at build time for applications to 
>> statically link in, even though it is not shipped as a shared library.
>>
>>
>>
> This is probably redundant to checks others have made, but I *presume* 
> hunspell is therefore GPL?  One cannot deliver a binary statically 
> linked against GPL (isn't readline GPL?)  unless said binary is also GPL.
>
>    -- Garrett
>