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Ruby (GPLv2 only) tries to link to with readline (now GPLv3)

Feature #2983: Ruby (GPLv2 only) tries to link to with readline (now GPLv3)

Added by lucas (Lucas Nussbaum) over 15 years ago. Updated over 14 years ago.

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Target version:
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[ruby-core:28736]

Description

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Hi,

The readline library was relicensed under GPLv3. Since Ruby is GPLv2 only, it is not allowed to link to readline.

Most distributions currently ship both the (old) GPLv2 readline version, and the new GPLv3 readline. However, this is likely to change in the future.

A solution could be to use a different library, like libedit (http://www.thrysoee.dk/editline/)
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Related issues 2 (0 open2 closed)

Is duplicate of Ruby - Feature #2032: Change the license to "GPLv2+ or Ruby's original".Closedmatz (Yukihiro Matsumoto)Actions
Is duplicate of Ruby - Feature #2982: Ruby tries to link with both openssl and readlineThird Party's IssueActions

Updated by naruse (Yui NARUSE) over 15 years ago Actions #2

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libedit doesn't support multibyte encodings.
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Updated by nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada) over 15 years ago Actions #3

  • Status changed from Open to Closed

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Updated by lucas (Lucas Nussbaum) over 15 years ago Actions #4

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I'm surprised this was closed without discussion. How do you recommend we (Debian) solve that?
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Updated by naruse (Yui NARUSE) over 15 years ago Actions #5

  • Status changed from Closed to Open

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GPL3 problem is not resolved; this ticket is mistakenly closed because this is duplicated ticket with #2982.
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Updated by wishdev (John Higgins) over 15 years ago Actions #6

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libedit might be finally getting multibyte encodings - http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/lib/libedit/?sortby=date - there appears to be a commit to add UTF-8 support
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Updated by naruse (Yui NARUSE) over 15 years ago Actions #7

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Yes, but current its UTF-8 support is broken.
Moreover it is only UTF-8.

I heard they are working on supporting M17N, so it is good when that is done.
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Updated by nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada) over 15 years ago Actions #8

  • Status changed from Open to Closed

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I close this ticket because it is duplication.
Also, note that libedit has been supported already,
libreadline will be disabled by --enable-libedit configure option.
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Updated by naruse (Yui NARUSE) over 15 years ago Actions #9

  • Status changed from Closed to Open

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Don't close duplicated tickets, all of them are closed if you close one of them > nobu
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Updated by nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada) over 15 years ago Actions #10

  • ruby -v changed from 1.8 to *

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At least, to avoid divergence, I don't think we should make discussions in many places.

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Updated by nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada) over 15 years ago Actions #11

  • Status changed from Open to Third Party's Issue

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