From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Korsgaard Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2019 08:39:55 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 11/11] package/socat: drop optional readline dependency In-Reply-To: <20191113151724.12155-12-peter@korsgaard.com> (Peter Korsgaard's message of "Wed, 13 Nov 2019 16:17:24 +0100") References: <20191113151724.12155-1-peter@korsgaard.com> <20191113151724.12155-12-peter@korsgaard.com> Message-ID: <87lfscpb5g.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net >>>>> "Peter" == Peter Korsgaard writes: > socat is licensed under GPL-2.0, which is not license compatible with > readline (GPL-3.0+), so drop the optional dependency and add a comment > explaining why. > This also matches how socat is packaged in Debian, where the man page has > the following snippet added: > READLINE > Uses GNU readline and history on stdio to allow editing and reusing input lines (example). > Due to licensing restrictions the readline feature is disabled in Debian. See BUGS. > You can use STDIO instead. > Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard Committed to 2019.02.x and 2019.08.x, thanks. -- Bye, Peter Korsgaard