gnu readline licensing?

[Irmen de Jong]

On 20-4-2010 20:09, Brendan Miller wrote:
> Python provides a GNU readline interface... since readline is a GPLv3
> library, doesn't that make python subject to the GPL? I'm confused
> because I thought python had a more BSD style license.
>
> Also, I presume programs written with the readline interface would
> still be subject to GPL... might want to put a warning about that in
> the python library docs.

IANAL but I think because Python itself doesn't include the readline library as part of 
the distribution (it is installed on your system by other means), you have nothing to 
worry about. Only when you start to include it as part of your program, then you have to 
worry about the license(s) involved. But I can be wrong here.

-irmen