[Bug 9748] Possible GPL license in keyboard driver

Alan Cox alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Tue Aug 21 11:34:17 PDT 2007


On Tue, 21 Aug 2007 13:05:16 -0500
mcnichol at austin.ibm.com wrote:

> 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?

Its a Linux specific bit but its certainly worth pinging Rik Faith if you
want to double check. <faith at acm.org> should reach him still.

Alan



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