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Re:Show HN: Linenoise NG – GNU Readline Replacement, with UT... by fceller on Tuesday February 16, 2016 @10:20AM (#11110353)
+1

There are even a lot of other OPEN SOURCE projects with licenses (Apache, BSD) which cannot use readline because of their restricted GPL (instead of LGPL).

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Re:Show HN: Linenoise NG – GNU Readline Replacement, with UT... by mkesper on Tuesday February 16, 2016 @03:20PM (#11112846)
Well, this isn't correct, it's just that the result would have to be distributed under terms of GPL. (Assuming the license is GPL compatible, which most of the ones you mentioned are).
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