https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1867290
--- Comment #5 from Jens Petersen <petersen(a)redhat.com> ---
Thanks, Andy, sorry for the long pause - the license was identified and cleared
by Fedora Legal in August as:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/Henry_Spencer_Reg-Ex_Library_Lic...
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/legal@lists.fedoraproject.o...
though I got a couple of discouraging comments along the lines of "Why another
libedit"...
which while I tend to agree with, I still think this package is useful for
people trying to build nix [1].
Apparently nix can be configured (via envvars) to build with readline, but with
reduced functionality
(this was added because the version of editline in Debian/Ubuntu is very old
based on the original one).
I guess it is a question for nix upstream why they chose this lesser known
library for its repl:
well there is some upstream discussion on it, see for example
https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/1356
[1] particularly since it is unlikely we can ever ship nix properly in Fedora,
unless we do what Debian does and ship the binary without setting up the system
/nix directories.
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