On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 7:12 PM, Michal Kubecek wrote:
>     I'm not sure it really is a problem but given the text on top of the
>     file, I can't be sure it is OK either, especially when our legal team
>     considers it to be bad enough to exclude it from OpenSuSE. This is why
>     I wanted to discuss it in the list. (Yes, I too would prefer to live
>     in a world where a developer doesn't need law school more then computer
>     science.)
>
>     The problem I see is that the source tarball contains a file claiming it
>     contains a code proprietary to AT&T and not referring to any license.
>     For anyone who gets the tarball it means they don't now what they can or
>     cannot do with it - and therefore with the source tree as a whole.

   I wonder why you don't ask about whether distribution of this file is ok 
directly in 
AT&T?.. They claim rights on the file, so they know the answer for sure.

-- 
   WBR, SD.

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