kdelibs and the GPL

Thiago Macieira thiagom at wanadoo.fr
Wed Jun 19 17:16:58 BST 2002


Michael Matz wrote
>Hi,
>
>On Wed, 19 Jun 2002, George Staikos wrote:
>> > ./kio/kssl/ksslall.h: no_copyright
>> > ./kio/kssl/kssldefs.h: no_copyright
>>
>>    I don't really care about those.  They're utilities.  As far as I'm
>> concerned they can be public domain.
>
>Then you need to say so.  Without any comment nobody has a license to use
>them at all.

Being distributed (legally, i.e., not by theft) and not claiming a copyright 
means they're public domain. Anybody can do what he wishes. 

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