[vlc-devel] Kate licence and GPL ?

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>> The libkate library has a COPYING file that I copied thereafter.
>>
>> Is it compatible with GPLv2+ ?
>> IANAL. Who can answer ?
>
> You could ask the FSF guys. They know how to interpret legal stuff.

In any case, it was not my intention to be incompatible with the GPL, version 2
or version 3. The licence is a slightly modified new style BSD, which is very
unlikely to be incompatible. It also happens to be licence Vorbis and Theora
use, so if these are compatible, libkate also is.