good. also very nice to hear you did write a replacement for blueZ and released it as some copy left license.

... you did write and release a replacement in the license you like, right? right?

That's fair enough, though OP was referring to command-line tools, not libraries.

He was basically saying that seeing readline pulled as one of the dependencies gives him confidence that the tool won't suck. He said nothing about building tools with readline support (implicit or otherwise).

Do they actually use features like ARM trustzone and encrypt the firmware? I'm trying to get my router to do things it should be able to do and it seems like they mostly concentrated on making getting serial accesss more annoying but the rest is just an ancient BSP linux distro with minor changes using none of the actual security features of the SoC.

Ah, sure. Yeah, I could see how GPLv3 code would be inconvenient for a company that wants to ship it without complying with the license. The companies I've worked had a different profit model so it never affected me. In my case, seeing readline just means that the development tool I'm using will be more pleasant to work with.