Simon Marlow wrote:
As far as I can see, you don't need a package with a variant license in order to do what you want. The package in question just has an option to use editline instead of readline at build-time.
I'm not the license expert. I did not invent a "variant license". GPL seems to be fine for me in all cases.
If you want to make life even easier, do as was suggested before and add a module with a single compatible API to both editline and readline, so clients can use the same API regardless of which package they link against.
Currently, I'm happy with Rob Dockins's Shellac-compatline.
You also abstract the choice between windows and unix. Doesn't that have license implications, too?
I'm not aware of any license implications - what problem specifically are you referring to?
No specific problem. Can I freely link against all the window dlls regarding file access (and thus for the Prelude) of package win32? Cheers Christian