Bug#979097: Legally problematic GPL-3+ readline dependency

Bastian Germann bastiangermann at fishpost.de
Sat Jan 2 17:37:08 GMT 2021


Package: teg
Severity: important

This package depends on libreadline8 which is GPL-3+ licensed. According 
to debian/copyright parts of your package are GPL-2-only licensed. If 
that is also (transitively) the case for the binaries that link with 
libreadline.so.8 it might be legally problematic (see 
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#AllCompatibility).

There is an easy solution to the problem: Replacing the build dependency 
libreadline-dev with libeditreadline-dev links with the BSD-licensed 
libedit library which is a readline replacement.



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