rpms/lua/devel .cvsignore, 1.4, 1.5 lua.spec, 1.18, 1.19 sources, 1.6, 1.7

[Hans de Goede]

Hi all,

As I already thought only /usr/bin/lua uses readline, so I've patched
the package so that only /usr/bin/lua is linked to readline, leaving
/usr/lib[64]/liblua-5.1.so readline free and thus avoiding any potential
license troubles.

Regards,

Hans


Ville Skyttä wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-10-14 at 13:32 -0700, Hans de Goede wrote:
> 
>> * Sat Oct 14 2006 Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede at hhs.nl> 5.1.1-1
>> - New upstream release 5.1.1
>> - Fix detection of readline during compile (iow add readline support back)
> [...]
>> --- lua.spec	28 Aug 2006 04:24:13 -0000	1.18
>> +++ lua.spec	14 Oct 2006 20:32:35 -0000	1.19
>> @@ -1,16 +1,14 @@
>>  Name:           lua
>> -Version:        5.1
>> -Release:        7%{?dist}
>> +Version:        5.1.1
>> +Release:        1%{?dist}
>>  Summary:        Powerful light-weight programming language
>> -
>>  Group:          Development/Languages
>>  License:        MIT
> [...]
>> -BuildRequires:  readline-devel, ncurses-devel
>> +BuildRequires:  readline-devel ncurses-devel
> 
> Doesn't linking lua with readline mean that the combined work now falls
> under the GPL, not MIT?  If so, I think it would be good to change the
> License tag to reflect that.  Or if possible, to split the parts that
> have been linked with readline into a separate GPL licensed subpackage,
> leaving everything else MIT.
> 
> Actually maybe even better, look into linking with libedit instead?
> http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2006-02/msg00472.html
> 
>