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Update origin section upon questions from Peter Rosin
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Thank you Peter for reminding me to update this!

Signed-off-by: Joachim Nilsson <[email protected]>
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Origin & References
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This [line editing][] library was created by Simmule Turner and Rich Salz
in in 1992. It is distributed under a “C News-like” license, similar to
the [BSD license][]. For details, see the file [LICENSE][].

This version of the editline library is forked from the [Minix 3][] source
tree. Patches and bug fixes from the following forks, all based on the
This [line editing][] library was created by Simmule Turner and
[Rich Salz][upstream] in in 1992. It is distributed under a “C
News-like” license, similar to the [BSD license][]. Rich's latest
version is however under the Apache license. For details on the
licensing terms of this version of the software, see [LICENSE][].

This version of the editline library was forked from the [Minix 3][]
source tree and is *not* related to the similarily named NetBSD version
that [Jess Thrysøe][jess] disitributes to the world outside BSD. The
libraries have much in common, but the latter is heavily refactored and
also relies on ncurses, whereas this library only uses termios from the
standard C library.

Patches and bug fixes from the following forks, all based on the
original comp.sources.unix posting, have been merged:

* Debian [libeditline][]
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[TODO.md]: https://github.com/troglobit/editline/blob/master/TODO.md
[ChangeLog.md]: https://github.com/troglobit/editline/blob/master/ChangeLog.md
[FSF readline]: http://www.gnu.org/software/readline/
[Minix 3]: http://www.minix3.org/
[upstream]: https://github.com/richsalz/editline/
[Minix 3]: http://www.cise.ufl.edu/~cop4600/cgi-bin/lxr/http/source.cgi/lib/editline/
[jess]: http://thrysoee.dk/editline/
[BSD license]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD_licenses
[libeditline]: http://packages.qa.debian.org/e/editline.html
[Heimdal]: http://www.h5l.org
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