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Re: [trinity-devel] Legal problem in kdeutils

From: Ilya Chernykh <anixxsus@...>
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2011 21:29:57 +0400
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?