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[Sergei Golubchik <serg@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi, AL13N!

On Feb 25, AL13N wrote:
> >
> > In MariaDB we prefer to link with readline. We never link with bundled
> > libedit at all. Either with system readline, if it's usable, or with
> > system libedit, or with bundled readline.
> 
> iinm, MariaDB is GPLv2 and libreadline (version 6) is GPLv3, so they don't
> mix. but bundled libreadline (version 5) is GPLv2 and that one is
> possible.

That's why I said "with system readline, if it's usable".
We only link with system readline if it's V5 or earlier.

Regards,
Sergei