[Bug 9748] Possible GPL license in keyboard driver

mcnichol at austin.ibm.com mcnichol at austin.ibm.com
Tue Aug 21 11:05:16 PDT 2007


The following was added to lnx_kbd.c in the xf86-input-keyboard package.

+ *
+ * Portions based on kbdrate.c from util-linux 2.9t, which is
+ * Copyright 1992 Rickard E. Faith. Distributed under the GPL.
+ * This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.

I guess this addresses part of the issue...
But do we really want the GPL in Xorg?

Dan


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>From bugzilla-daemon at freedesktop.org Mon Aug 20 17:39:57 2007
Subject: [Bug 9748] Possible GPL license in keyboard driver
To: mcnichol at austin.ibm.com
From: bugzilla-daemon at freedesktop.org
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 15:39:37 -0700 (PDT)

http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9748


eric at anholt.net changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
          Component|Server/general              |Input/Keyboard
         Resolution|                            |FIXED
            Summary|Possible GPL license in xorg|Possible GPL license in
                   |server                      |keyboard driver




------- Comment #3 from eric at anholt.net  2007-08-20 15:39 PST -------
Copyright notice by Rik Faith is now reproduced in the file in
xf86-input-keyboard.


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