Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug report. Summary: Review Request: calc - Arbitrary precision arithmetic system and calculator https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=227570 ------- Additional Comments From mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx 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. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the QA contact for the bug, or are watching the QA contact. _______________________________________________ Fedora-package-review mailing list Fedora-package-review@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-review