package/socat: drop optional readline dependency

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@korsgaard.com>
Reviewed-by: Baruch Siach <baruch@tkos.co.il>
Signed-off-by: Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
(cherry picked from commit 47def13564)
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
This commit is contained in:
Peter Korsgaard 2019-11-13 16:17:24 +01:00
parent 58e34c6826
commit 3dc2f288d1

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@ -29,6 +29,8 @@ endif
# automake, so we can't use the normal autoreconf logic.
SOCAT_DEPENDENCIES = host-autoconf
# incompatibile license (GPL-3.0+)
SOCAT_CONF_OPTS = --disable-readline
ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_OPENSSL),y)
SOCAT_DEPENDENCIES += openssl
@ -36,12 +38,6 @@ else
SOCAT_CONF_OPTS += --disable-openssl
endif
ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_READLINE),y)
SOCAT_DEPENDENCIES += readline
else
SOCAT_CONF_OPTS += --disable-readline
endif
define SOCAT_RUN_AUTOCONF
(cd $(@D); $(HOST_DIR)/bin/autoconf)
endef