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authorEelco Dolstra <edolstra@gmail.com>2017-05-10T16·34+0200
committerEelco Dolstra <edolstra@gmail.com>2017-05-10T16·37+0200
commitc5f23f10a84f568874321c04984b1a14d2dce978 (patch)
treefa672fb6cf9c64015d57438366492bb2eaa9c99c /doc
parent82a9c93c7f090d5a4eebe84894669aa13d31ed61 (diff)
Replace readline by linenoise
Using linenoise avoids a license compatibility issue (#1356), is a lot
smaller and doesn't pull in ncurses.
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-rw-r--r--doc/manual/introduction/about-nix.xml6
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/manual/introduction/about-nix.xml b/doc/manual/introduction/about-nix.xml
index e6dfb7a5a565..be065da3eb2d 100644
--- a/doc/manual/introduction/about-nix.xml
+++ b/doc/manual/introduction/about-nix.xml
@@ -261,6 +261,12 @@ xlink:href="http://nixos.org/">NixOS homepage</link>.</para>
 xlink:href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/lgpl-2.1.html">GNU
 LGPLv2.1 or (at your option) any later version</link>.</para>
 
+<para>Nix uses the <link
+xlink:href="https://github.com/antirez/linenoise">linenoise
+library</link>, which has the following license:</para>
+
+<programlisting><xi:include href="../../../src/linenoise/LICENSE" parse="text" /></programlisting>
+
 </simplesect>