On Wednesday 21 September 2011 21:40:22 Timothy Pearson wrote:
> > On Wednesday 21 September 2011 21:21:29 Timothy Pearson wrote:
> >
> >> At first glance these includes appear to be (modified?) Linux kernel
> >> header files, which would have originally been licensed under the GPL.
> >>
> >> See here for example:
> >> Version in kdeutils:
> >> http://websvn.kde.org/branches/trinity/kdeutils/klaptopdaemon/linux/driver_ops.h?revision=1054174&view=markup
> >> Version in kernel:
> >> http://joshua.raleigh.nc.us/docs/linux-2.4.10_html/208640.html
> >>
> >> It looks like someone truncated the GPL portion of the license header,
> >> possibly accidentally as this was over ten years ago.
> >
> > The original file was double-licensed, which allows to publish derivatives
> > under MPL.
> > Are these files actually used in KDE3?
> 
> Yes they are, for the laptop daemon, which is still in use by some people.
> 
> From what I can tell there were no or very minor changes made.  At least
> some of the license issues can be resolved by simply copying over the
> original file from the kernel headers in the cases where no changes were
> made.

Also it seems the second one is published later.