On Mon, 2024-06-10, at 23:52:14 (+0200), brian m. carlson wrote: > On 2024-06-10 at 13:42:42, Marc-Jano Knopp wrote: > > Hi all! > > > > > > I would like git-shell to support libreadline: > > > > https://tiswww.cwru.edu/php/chet/readline/rltop.html > > Unfortunately, I don't think we can do that. libreadline is GPLv3+, and > Git is GPLv2, so it would violate the license to distribute a binary > linked that way. Oh, it's a legal issue ... *sigh* > It's possible that libeditline could be used instead to provide similar > features, though. If it's important to you that this be implemented, > you can send a patch, or you can see if someone else is interested > enough to do so. Thanks for the hint! MJK
