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debian: remove outdated README content

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Signed-off-by: David Lamparter <equinox@diac24.net>
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@ -52,31 +52,6 @@ used. This option should only be used for systems that do not have systemd,
e.g. Ubuntu 14.04.
* Why has SNMP support been disabled?
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FRR used to link against the NetSNMP libraries to provide SNMP
support. Those libraries sadly link against the OpenSSL libraries
to provide crypto support for SNMPv3 among others.
OpenSSL now is not compatible with the GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE (GPL)
licence that FRR is distributed under. For more explanation read:
http://www.gnome.org/~markmc/openssl-and-the-gpl.html
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLIncompatibleLibs
Updating the licence to explicitly allow linking against OpenSSL
would requite the affirmation of all people that ever contributed
a significant part to Zebra / Quagga or FRR and thus are the collective
"copyright holder". That's too much work. Using a shrinked down
version of NetSNMP without OpenSSL or convincing the NetSNMP people
to change to GnuTLS are maybe good solutions but not reachable
during the last days before the Sarge release :-(
*BUT*
It is allowed by the used licence mix that you fetch the sources and
build FRR yourself with SNMP with
# apt-get -b source -Ppkg.frr.snmp frr
Just distributing it in binary form, linked against OpenSSL, is forbidden.
* Debian Policy compliance notes
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