Bug#956602: any possibility to drop the dependency on librestbed?

[Bastian Germann]

On Sun, 4 Oct 2020 12:43:43 +0200 Francesco Poli 
<invernomuto at paranoici.org> wrote:
> On Sat, 15 Aug 2020 13:28:44 -0400 Alexandre Viau wrote:
> 
> [...]
> > Sadly I don't think they would consider doing so unless there was a
> > comparable alternative.
> > 
> > Jami is built on Linux, Mac, Windows, Android, Iphone, Android TV,
> > etc... and they had trouble finding a good http library that worked well
> > on all those platforms.
> 
> What about persuading the upstream developers of librestbed to
> re-license the library under more uncontroversially DFSG-free terms
> (GNU GPL or more permissive)?
> 
> Do you think there is any chance of success?

The referenced bug was closed because the OpenSSL license situation 
changed in Debian. Also, upstream version 2019-11-15 introduced 
librestinio as an alternative to restbed and the package currently 
disables building with librestbed.

So the only thing missing is removing librestbed-dev from the build 
dependencies. This keeps the package from migrating.