On Sep 21, 11 20:56:43 +0400, Ilya Chernykh wrote:
I received numerous bugreports regarding KDE3 packages from the legal team.
Looks like a false declaration of some copied kernel headers to me.
=== ksim and kgpg contains the GPL-2.0 files listed below. I can't immediately see from the spec file where the source code is compiled into but the spec file should definitely denote the package (or subpackage of applicable) as GPL-2.0.
kdeutils-3.5.10/kgpg/conf_encryption.ui.h kdeutils-3.5.10/kgpg/keyexport.ui.h kdeutils-3.5.10/kgpg/kgpgrevokewidget.ui.h kdeutils-3.5.10/kgpg/newkey.ui.h kdeutils-3.5.10/ksim/monitors/lm_sensors/NVCtrl.c kdeutils-3.5.10/ksim/monitors/lm_sensors/NVCtrl.h kdeutils-3.5.10/ksim/monitors/lm_sensors/nv_control.h kdeutils-3.5.10/superkaramba/examples/taskBar/cleanbar/README
Also, there are numerous header files in klaptopdaemon licensed under the MPL-1.0 (which is incompatible with the GPL-2.0). Please check if these files are used. If they are, we need to determine how we can resolve the GPL compatibility issue.
kdeutils-3.5.10/klaptopdaemon/linux/bulkmem.h kdeutils-3.5.10/klaptopdaemon/linux/ciscode.h kdeutils-3.5.10/klaptopdaemon/linux/cisreg.h kdeutils-3.5.10/klaptopdaemon/linux/cistpl.h kdeutils-3.5.10/klaptopdaemon/linux/cs.h kdeutils-3.5.10/klaptopdaemon/linux/cs_types.h kdeutils-3.5.10/klaptopdaemon/linux/driver_ops.h kdeutils-3.5.10/klaptopdaemon/linux/ds.h kdeutils-3.5.10/klaptopdaemon/linux/ftl.h kdeutils-3.5.10/klaptopdaemon/linux/k_compat.h kdeutils-3.5.10/klaptopdaemon/linux/mem_op.h kdeutils-3.5.10/klaptopdaemon/linux/memory.h kdeutils-3.5.10/klaptopdaemon/linux/ss.h ===
If the licenses of the components of KDE3 are incompatible with each other how it happened that so many distributions included KDE3? Did all of them break the law?
Should we reconsider these legal issues after KDE3 has been already published and included in distributions for years? How can it turn that much-used and beloved software at once becomes "illegal"?
This is fallout from improving our legal review machinery. I would asume that there was no change in the packages and that the issues have been in there for a long time, and nobody discovered them up to now. Not much harm done, unless the "incompatibility" can be proven be on purpose. Which I doubt, in this case. cheers, JW- -- o \ Juergen Weigert paint it green! __/ _=======.=======_ <V> | jw@suse.de back to ascii! __/ _---|____________\/ \ | 0911 74053-508 __/ (____/ /\ (/) | _____________________________/ _/ \_ vim:set sw=2 wm=8 SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Jeff Hawn, J.Guild, F.Imendoerffer, HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg), Maxfeldstrasse 5, 90409 Nuernberg, Germany SuSE. Supporting Linux since 1992. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org