[Bug 227570] Review Request: calc - Arbitrary precision arithmetic system and calculator

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Summary: Review Request: calc - Arbitrary precision arithmetic system and calculator


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=227570





------- Additional Comments From mattdm at mattdm.org  2007-09-09 18:36 EST -------
GPL, as per section 3 of LGPL v2.1, so we can link against readline. This is a
temporary situation I'm working on dealing with upstream.

Alternately, there's logic in the spec file to build without readline and remain
LGPL.  I'm open to making that the default if we have other non-GPL-compatible
free software packages in Fedora that people are interested in linking against
calc. That uses the much-inferior internal line editing routines, though, and
makes the command-line program noticeably less nice to use, so I'd prefer to not.

The upstream possibilities are 1) modify the source to be libedit/editline
compatible (or fix whatever it is in libedit's readline-interface compatibility
layer that isn't working), or 2) split the package so the math and language
libraries don't need to be linked against the line input code -- then, the
command line "calc" program can by GPL and the libraries (which have no real use
for readline) can stay LGPL.

#1 is probably relatively trivial; #2 manageable but less so. If you'd like to
help with either, that'd be awesome.

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