[Bug 468604] Review Request: echolinux - Linux echolink client

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--- Comment #3 from Jason Tibbitts <tibbs at math.uh.edu>  2008-11-21 13:08:08 EDT ---
I know that other files have that header, but the file in question does not. 
Without the accompanying COPYRIGHT file its not possible to determine what the
license on that particular header is, and we have no redistribution rights at
all.

Now, given context we can tell that it comes from the gsm package, which is
already in Fedora and carries an MIT license.  However, I chatted with the
legal expert and the bottom line is that unless we can go back in time and find
something with that exact version of the header that has the COPYRIGHT file
intact, we have no way to prove that the license didn't change at some point
and hence the gsm.h and libgsm.a files need to be treated as prohibited source
and actually removed from the tarball that gets packed into the srpm.  See
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/SourceURL#When_Upstream_uses_Prohibited_Code
for more details.

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