Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (1264 mails)

[Ilya Chernykh <anixxsus@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 22 September 2011 02:07:06 Juergen Weigert wrote:

> > > > https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=719453
> > > Looks like a false declaration of some copied kernel headers to me.
> >
> > In what sense false?
>
> I thought of copy&paste mess, when I said this. But there are other
> possibilities too. The files we see in KDE from 1998. Maybe just 
> outdated bitrot there.
>
> > Yes these files are nearly identical to those in kernel, but I fail to see
> > how it can help here.
>
> Nearly identical is a good indicator that they should have compatible
> licenses. 
>
> > Also aren't headers not covered by copyright?
> They are. This makes it unlikely that the same copyright owner declares 
> a file as MPL here and as GPL there.

What could be a resolution of this issue?
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