Bug 9748

Summary:	Possible GPL license in keyboard driver
Product:	xorg	Reporter:	Dan McNichol <mcnichol>
Component:	Input/Keyboard	Assignee:	Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Severity:	normal
Priority:	high	Keywords:	licence
Version:	7.1 (2006.05)
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	8888

Description Dan McNichol 2007-01-23 14:52:22 UTC

These two files seem to have originated from GPL code, but there is no 
indication that they are available under the MIT/X11 license.

xorg-server-1.1.1/hw/xfree86/os-support/linux/lnx_io.c
xorg-server-1.1.1/hw/xfree86/os-support/linux/lnx_kbd.c

There is a comment in these files:
/* kbd rate stuff based on kbdrate.c from Rik Faith <faith@cs.unc.edu> et.al.
 * from util-linux-2.9t package */

The file kbdrate.c in package util-linux-2.9 is under the GPL.

Comment 1 Daniel Stone 2007-01-23 15:08:26 UTC

lnx_io.c is no longer shipped; only lnx_kbd.c, which has been moved to the kbd
driver.

Comment 2 Daniel Stone 2007-02-27 01:35:55 UTC

Sorry about the phenomenal bug spam, guys.  Adding xorg-team@ to the QA contact so bugs don't get lost in future.

Comment 3 Eric Anholt 2007-08-20 15:39:37 UTC

Copyright notice by Rik Faith is now reproduced in the file in xf86-input-keyboard.

Comment 4 Dan McNichol 2007-08-20 21:09:02 UTC

Do we really want GPL code in the xorg source tree?

Maybe not a problem for Linux, but the sco and usl kbd files indicate they
are based on  lnx_kbd.c.  Are those files infected with GPL?
There may be others...

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