GPL and missing licenses in xf86-input-keyboard? (was Re: [ANNOUNCE] xf86-input-keyboard1.2.2)

[Jeremy C. Reed]

On Thu, 6 Sep 2007, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:

> I worded that wrong. I meant to say:
> 
> Has anyone asked the copyright owner of that code if it can be re-used
> under the standard X.org license (or whatever MIT/X11/XFree86 license 
> that might be also in it)?
> 
> I forgot to list in my last email that it is also based on code with this 
> license:


NOTE: the following license is incompatible with GPL.

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/bsd.html

We probably shouldn't have even mixed this code with incompatible 
licenses.

On that note, we shouldn't have distributed this xf86-input-keyboard 
tarball without including the licenses.

Or is there a newer license for this code released by the copyright owner 
that removes the advertising clause?

We need to make sure that every released tarball has a valid COPYING file.

> /*
>  * Copyright 1992 by Orest Zborowski <obz at Kodak.com>
>  * Copyright 1993 by David Dawes <dawes at xfree86.org>
>  *
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>  * documentation for any purpose is hereby granted without fee, provided that
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  Jeremy C. Reed