On 2016-06-03 10:17:00 [+0200], chrysn wrote: > Package: socat > Version: 2.0.0~beta4-1.1 > Severity: wishlist > > readline support in socat is disabled for good licensing reasons (see > #632481), but line editing support is practical (and advertised in the > man page).
No that I look at since this somehow poped-up in the recent update by some reason: Could we actually enable readline-support back? Looking at socat, it is granting an exception to OpenSSL if it matches the license in COPYING.OpenSSL according d/copyright. Now, this is not the case anymore as OpenSSL is licensed under Apache-2.0. So the license exception isn't be valid. But then COPYING says "either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version." and this reads as GPLv2+ which is compatible with Apache-2.0. Since readline is GPLv2+ as well, this would allow to enable readline support. Sebastian
