This package was debianized by Andreas Jellinghaus <aj@debian.org>.
Thanks to Brandon Mitchell <bhmit1@mail.wm.edu> for his work on the
libc5 version.

It was downloaded via CVS from the KDE CVS repository.

Copyright:

kmail :
parts from kedit :
  kedit, a simple text editor for the KDE project

  Requires the Qt widget libraries, available at no cost at
  http://www.troll.no

  Copyright (C) 1997 Bernd Johannes Wuebben
  wuebben@math.cornell.edu

  parts:
  Alexander Sanda <alex@darkstar.ping.at>

  This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
  the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
  (at your option) any later version.

  This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
  GNU General Public License for more details.

kalarmtimer:
/* kalarmtimer: timeout handler using the system's alarm timer
 *
 * The alarm timer uses the alarm signal for timeout events. The
 * advantage of this signal is that the event will also occur when
 * the application is busy. Qt's timer events only occur when
 * the application is idle.
 *
 * Author: Stefan Taferner <taferner@salzburg.co.at>
 * This code is under GPL.
 */ 

parts :
/**
 * KMimeMagic is inspired by the code of the
 * Apache Web Server.
 *
 * Rewritten for KDE by Fritz Elfert
 * fritz@kde.org
 */

i got a message from one of the kde core developers, martin konold:
I herby declare any part of KDE in the Version Beta 2 to be coverd by the
GNU GPL Ver.2 which is not already explicitely covered by any other
copyright.
 
krn:
parts from kedit (see above).

// This file os part of KRN, a newsreader for the KDE project.
// KRN is distributed under the GNU General Public License.
// Read the acompanying file COPYING for more info.

// KRN wouldn't be possible without these libraries, whose authors have
// made free to use on non-commercial software:
//                                                                          //
// MIME++ by Doug Sauder
// Qt     by Troll Tech
//                                                                          //
// This file is copyright 1997 by
// Roberto Alsina <ralsina@unl.edu.ar>
// Magnus Reftel  <d96reftl@dtek.chalmers.se>

parts:
 * KMimeMagic is inspired by the code of the
 * Apache Web Server.
 *
 * Rewritten for KDE by Fritz Elfert
 * fritz@kde.org

(some parts without note, so gpl'ed).
