permission to use spec files in other projects (Was Re: clamav)

Jesse Keating jkeating at redhat.com
Wed Sep 26 14:26:17 UTC 2007


On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 09:14:45 -0500
Josh Boyer <jwboyer at jdub.homelinux.org> wrote:

> A declaration of what license (if any) the spec files are under
> globally.  Spot is right in that they are covered by the CLA, but I
> don't consider that to be straight forward for people consuming
> downstream. It's also complicated by the fact that nothing disallows
> people from adding their own license to the spec file.
> 
> The end goal is simply to allow others to take the Fedora spec files
> and use them in other projects.

Also we should probably make a decision project wise as to if allowing
spec files in Fedora to be explicitly licensed (see jpp spec files) and
if so how that interacts with the global license of all spec files.

-- 
Jesse Keating
Fedora -- All my bits are free, are yours?
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