copyright issues in kdebase/nsplugins

Zack Cerza <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.kde.licensing,gmane.comp.kde.devel.core
Message-ID <[email protected]>
So, I'm crossposting this to kde-licensing and k-c-d, because it clearly 
belongs in the former, but I'm afraid nobody will see it there, just judging 
by its archives. If that's inappropriate, I'm sorry. :)

While trying to sort out some copyright issues in kaffeine-mozilla [0], it was 
noted that some of the same issues exist in kdebase/nsplugins. The summary:

zack@gaz nsplugins =) % grep -ir 'all rights reserved' * | grep -v '/\.svn/'
sdk/jni.h: * Copyright (c) 1993-1996 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights 
Reserved.
sdk/jni.h: * Copyright (c) 1996 Netscape Communications Corporation. All 
rights reserved.
sdk/jni_md.h: * Copyright (c) 1993-1996 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights 
Reserved.
sdk/jri.h: * Copyright (c) 1996 Netscape Communications Corporation. All 
rights reserved.
sdk/jri_md.h: * Copyright (c) 1996 Netscape Communications Corporation. All 
rights reserved.
sdk/jritypes.h: * Copyright (c) 1996 Netscape Communications Corporation. All 
rights reserved.
viewer/kxt.cpp:** Copyright (C) 1992-2000 Troll Tech AS.  All rights reserved.
viewer/kxt.h:** Copyright (C) 1992-2000 Troll Tech AS.  All rights reserved.
viewer/qxteventloop.cpp:** Copyright (C) 1992-2000 Trolltech AS.  All rights 
reserved.
viewer/qxteventloop.h:** Copyright (C) 1992-2000 Trolltech AS.  All rights 
reserved.

If you can manage to read that annoyingly-wrapped output, it pretty much 
speaks for itself. So, yeah. I'm the messenger. Shoot me.

I only have the question: what can, should, and will be done about this? I'm 
hoping the copyright owners will be willing to relicense at least some of 
these files. I especially care about j[rn]i*.h, because some of those files 
are used in other projects besides KDE. Please keep me CCed, though, as I'm 
not subscribed to either of these lists.

[0]: 
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=7502417&forum_id=38669

Regards,
Zack
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