Working around the GPL for GNU readline

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@example.com>]

>>>>> "jb" == Jonathan Q <jq@example.com> writes:

    jb> Stephen J. Turnball (turnbull@example.com) wrote:
    Stephen> You know, I've considered writing a GNU readline server
    Stephen> that does nothing except provide the exec boundary

    jb> The idea being a workaround for the viral aspects of the GPL?

    jb> I suppose that observes the letter of the law if not the
    jb> spirit, but [...]

    jb> We know which is more truly free.

Whatever, it now exists.  I suspect this isn't the way I would have
done it, but go to your nearest debian mirror, and do a dir on

		  dists/woody/main/source/libs/cle_*

and that should show you sources to something that claims to do what I
wanted.

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