[Buildroot] [PATCH 11/11] package/socat: drop optional readline dependency

Peter Korsgaard peter at korsgaard.com
Tue Nov 19 07:39:55 UTC 2019


>>>>> "Peter" == Peter Korsgaard <peter at korsgaard.com> 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 <peter at korsgaard.com>

Committed to 2019.02.x and 2019.08.x, thanks.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard



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