[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.
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Bye, Peter Korsgaard
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