[OpenAFS] Features great and small

Derrick J Brashear shadow@dementia.org
Tue, 31 Jul 2001 11:42:46 -0400 (EDT)


On 31 Jul 2001, Russ Allbery wrote:

> Charles Karney <ckarney@sarnoff.com> writes:
> 
> > * readline interface for kas and backup in interactive mode.  The benefits
> >   should be obvious.
> 
> Due to annoying legal issues, I don't believe that one can link any AFS
> code with libreadline, at least the GNU version.  (The code is covered by
> the GPL, not the LGPL, and I don't believe that the license of AFS is
> sufficiently compatible.)

KTH-krb (and heimdal) have libeditline, which is essentially a replacement
for the important functionality of this which is license-compatible.