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Re: Adding (compiling) a module to already build Zsh

> On Sep 14, 2016, at 3:16 AM, Sebastian Gniazdowski <sgniazdowski@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> it is rarely available in distributed Zsh packages (licensing issue?
> I'm not sure if license issue doesn't apply only to pcre module).
> However, with easily available build environment one would be able to
> distribute a gdbm module together with his plugin and this way
> overcome licensing issue.

Depends on the system vendor -- for instance, Linux distributions are
fine with the GPL requirement, but Apple won't ship GPL 3 software.

I also expect that package maintainers just don't think it's worth
adding the gdbm dependency, although I do ship zsh/gdbm (and zsh/pcre)
in MacPorts.

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