[Box Backup] Re: bbackupquery and german umlauts

[Chris Wilson]

Hi Reinhard,

On Thu, 20 Sep 2007, Reinhard Tartler wrote:

>> Also, you might like to try installing the "readline" development
>> libraries package, and configuring with --enable-gnu-readline, to see if
>> the resulting build works properly for you.
>
> Which is intersting for debugging reasons, but the resulting binaries
> are due to licencing reasons (readline being GPL and boxbackup BSDish)
> are unredistributable. So that would opt out distros like debian and
> ubuntu shipping boxbackup in their package repositories.

I think I remember that Martin discovered that editline is broken for 
international characters a while back. Of course, editline should be 
fixed, but I don't know who has time to do it.

I really think this GPL-BSD incompatibility is annoying. If we 
dual-licensed Box under GPL and BSD, would it be fixed? Ben and Martin, is 
that something that you could accept?

Cheers, Chris.
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