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All of this to get around the GPL. Boo!
This project goal is a bit more about replacing readline, but a big motivation for the original project is minimalism and trivial embeddability. It's all in the README.
I did diff on linenoise.c and linenoise.cpp (from NG) and very few lines are identical.
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> What freedom does a user of a software have if all the open source code is used by some proprietary software? Exactly the same freedom that the user has if that proprietary software did not use the GPL software. It's unchanged. These two worlds do not differ, either the proprietary product doesn't exist, or it reimplemented whatever code was GPLd. The GPL has had no positive impact, there is no more source code ava…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxIEDNyZOkA&feature=youtu.be... Martin Fink, EVP & CTO of HP on why we should use the GPL
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxIEDNyZOkA&feature=youtu.be... Martin Fink, EVP & CTO of HP on why we should use the GPL
I'm not seeing a "why" in here, just a "do this". There are no "why"s that are specific to any features of the GPL.
That is a feature of the GPL!