I hate replying to myself, but here we go.. kdelibs is LGPL. As someone mentioned it does use some code derived from gettext (libintl.cpp), which is GPL. However the code was taken from a version modified for glibc2 where is was redistributed as LGPL. I'll put the exact copyright message below.
From what I see this means that kdelibs can be placed in contrib..
Wichert.
/* libintl.cpp -- gettext related functions from glibc-2.0.5
Copyright (C) 1995 Software Foundation, Inc.
This file is part of the KDE libraries, but it's derived work out
of glibc. The master sources can be found in
bindtextdom.c
dcgettext.c
dgettext.c
explodename.c
finddomain.c
gettext.c
gettext.h
gettextP.h
hash-string.h
l10nflist.c
libintl.h
loadinfo.h
loadmsgcat.c
localealias.c
textdomain.c
which are part of glibc. The license is the same as in GLIBC, which
is the GNU Library General Public License. See COPYING.LIB for more
details.
*/
/* gettext.c -- implementation of gettext(3) function
Copyright (C) 1995 Software Foundation, Inc.
This file is part of the GNU C Library. Its master source is NOT part of
the C library, however. The master source lives in /gd/gnu/lib.
The GNU C Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License as
published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the
License, or (at your option) any later version.
The GNU C Library 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
Library General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public
License along with the GNU C Library; see the file COPYING.LIB. If
not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave,
Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. */
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