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diff --git a/readline/USAGE b/readline/USAGE new file mode 100644 index 0000000..edc9f54 --- /dev/null +++ b/readline/USAGE @@ -0,0 +1,37 @@ +From rms@gnu.org Thu Jul 22 20:37:55 1999 +Flags: 10 +Return-Path: rms@gnu.org +Received: from arthur.INS.CWRU.Edu (root@arthur.INS.CWRU.Edu [129.22.8.215]) by odin.INS.CWRU.Edu with ESMTP (8.8.6+cwru/CWRU-2.4-ins) + id UAA25349; Thu, 22 Jul 1999 20:37:54 -0400 (EDT) (from rms@gnu.org for <chet@odin.INS.CWRU.Edu>) +Received: from nike.ins.cwru.edu (root@nike.INS.CWRU.Edu [129.22.8.219]) by arthur.INS.CWRU.Edu with ESMTP (8.8.8+cwru/CWRU-3.6) + id UAA05311; Thu, 22 Jul 1999 20:37:51 -0400 (EDT) (from rms@gnu.org for <chet@po.cwru.edu>) +Received: from pele.santafe.edu (pele.santafe.edu [192.12.12.119]) by nike.ins.cwru.edu with ESMTP (8.8.7/CWRU-2.5-bsdi) + id UAA13350; Thu, 22 Jul 1999 20:37:50 -0400 (EDT) (from rms@gnu.org for <chet@nike.ins.cwru.edu>) +Received: from wijiji.santafe.edu (wijiji [192.12.12.5]) + by pele.santafe.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id SAA10831 + for <chet@nike.ins.cwru.edu>; Thu, 22 Jul 1999 18:37:47 -0600 (MDT) +Received: (from rms@localhost) + by wijiji.santafe.edu (8.9.1b+Sun/8.9.1) id SAA01089; + Thu, 22 Jul 1999 18:37:46 -0600 (MDT) +Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 18:37:46 -0600 (MDT) +Message-Id: <199907230037.SAA01089@wijiji.santafe.edu> +X-Authentication-Warning: wijiji.santafe.edu: rms set sender to rms@gnu.org using -f +From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> +To: chet@nike.ins.cwru.edu +Subject: Use of Readline +Reply-to: rms@gnu.org + +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. + + +====================================================================== +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. + + |