[Bug 9748] Possible GPL license in keyboard driver

[Kyle McMartin]

On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 01:38:32PM -0500, mcnichol at austin.ibm.com wrote:
> > > + * 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.
> 

Little bit too late for that. Sure hope they don't build monolithic
servers.

Cheers,
	Kyle M.