[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#979091: Legally problematic GPL-3+ readline dependency

[Étienne Mollier]

Control: forwarded -1 kevin at rosenberg.net

Hi Kevin,

I believe you are both the upstream author and uploader of
ctsim.  Bastian Germann caught a licensing issue[1] in ctsim and
suggested to replace the build dependency on libreadline-dev by
libeditreadline-dev.

[1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=979091

I tried this option and only noticed that the configuration file
~/.inputrc didn't seem to be taken into account anymore; I use a
vi style input mode which is caught by libreadline but not by
the libedit.  ctsimtext worked otherwise fine when I proceeded
to my tests when built with libeditreadline-dev.

Would you be okay that further builds of ctsim(text) rely on
libeditreadline-dev, in spite of the minor issue I'm maybe the
only person in the world to notice ?

Alternatively, as upstream developper, would ctsim be suitable
for a later GPL versions than 2 ?

Kind Regards,
-- 
Étienne Mollier <etienne.mollier at mailoo.org>
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