Re: Advanced readline support patch added to Wiki

[Mike Pall <mikelu-0405@...>]

Hi,

> Does this still need/use the GPL readline library?

You raise a valid concern. And as you can see here ...

> >It has been verified to work with Lua 5.0, 5.0.2, 5.1-work0 and
> >GNU readline 2.2.1, 4.0, 4.3 or NETBSD libedit 2.6.5, 2.6.9.

... it works just fine with the non-GPL (!) NETBSD libedit.
You can download it from: ftp://ftp.astron.com/pub/libedit/

So you could say that it uses the readline library *API*, but not
necessarily the GNU readline *library*.

Bye,
     Mike