Subject: Use of Readline

From: Richard Stallman <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 18:37:46 -0600 (MDT)

I think Allbery's suggestion is a good one.  So please add this text
in a suitable place.  Please don't put it in the GPL itself; that
should be the same as the GPL everywhere else.  Putting it in the
README and/or the documentation would be a good idea.

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Our position on the use of Readline through a shared-library linking
mechanism is that there is no legal difference between shared-library
linking and static linking--either kind of linking combines various
modules into a single larger work.  The conditions for using Readline
in a larger work are stated in section 3 of the GNU GPL.