From cbb5dd037e039915b3542aae36bd889b0d3ffff6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joachim Nilsson Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2015 01:02:25 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Update origin section upon questions from Peter Rosin Thank you Peter for reminding me to update this! Signed-off-by: Joachim Nilsson --- README.md | 24 +++++++++++++++++------- 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index cca7fea..f5ca721 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -137,12 +137,20 @@ The `$DESTDIR` environment variable is honored at install. See Origin & References -------------------- -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][] @@ -166,7 +174,9 @@ Outstanding issues are listed in the [TODO.md][] file. [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