2009/9/8 Leonard Chin <l.g.chin / gmail.com>:
> If readline's change in license is the primary reason for reevaluating
> Ruby's licensing,
> why not consider the option of replacing readline?
>
> Although far from mature, Luis Lavena and others were working on a
> pure Ruby clone
> of readline: http://github.com/luislavena/rb-readline/tree/master
>
> With more work, this could provide a reasonable happy alternative.
>
FWIW there is an old readline that seemed to work for me:

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/pds.cgi?ports/devel/ruby-rreadline

The only thing required was to make a symlink or equivalent so that it
loads instead of the stdlib readline.

Thanks

Michal