On 12/19/20 8:21 PM, Bastian Germann wrote: > Package: python3.9 > Version: 3.9.1-1 > Severity: normal > > Please consider replacing the GPL-3 licensed build dependency > libreadline-dev with libedit-dev, which is also supported by Python. The > GPL-3 is incompatible with some licenses such as GPL-2-only. Therefore, > a foundational package such as Python should choose the more > liberally licensed dependency to allow as much software in the archive > as possible without license headaches.
> Most probably, there is already a GPL-2-only Python software in the > archive that uses the readline module but I did not check. The readline module is usually loaded interactively, I don't see it as a hard-coded dependency. The configure code doesn't seem to look for libedit anyway.
