[Bug 9748] Possible GPL license in keyboard driver

[mcnichol at austin.ibm.com]

> From alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk Tue Aug 21 13:28:39 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.
> 

Yes, not a problem on Linux...

But I think that sco and usl versions are based on the lnx version.
Are those files now under GPL?
That could be a bit of a problem for them.

Dan