[DRE-maint] Bug#977724: libruby2.7: Build with libedit rather than readline
Bastian Germann
bastiangermann at fishpost.de
Sat Dec 19 17:03:30 GMT 2020
Package: libruby2.7
Version: 2.7.2-3
Severity: normal
Please consider replacing the GPL-3 licensed build dependency
libreadline6-dev with libedit-dev, which is also supported by Ruby. The
GPL-3 is incompatible with some licenses such as GPL-2-only. Therefore,
a foundational package such as libruby2.7 should choose the more
liberally licensed dependency to allow as much software in the archive
as possible without license headaches.
Most probably, there is already a GPL-2-only ruby software in the
archive that uses the readline module but I did not check.
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