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>

diff --git a/package/socat/socat.mk b/package/socat/socat.mk
index c6f99c2afade0f394a14116dab7cf14fef402d0d..9e747e08fa62b0acd4bb433b7d3f6599409e6743 100644 (file)
--- a/package/socat/socat.mk
+++ b/package/socat/socat.mk
@@ -27,6 +27,8 @@ 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
@@ -34,12 +36,6 @@ 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