[vlc-devel] Kate licence and GPL ?

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Hello,

Kate bitstream format was added by Vincent Penquerc'h in a previous
patch.

The libkate library has a COPYING file that I copied thereafter.

Is it compatible with GPLv2+ ?
IANAL. Who can answer ?

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