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

Karsten Wade kwade at redhat.com
Wed Sep 26 16:24:00 UTC 2007


On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 17:01 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:

> Further questions arise from Fedora maintainers reusing/modifying
> upstream specs and/or specs from other origins (e.g. other distros). 
> They can be covered by other copyrights/licenses (e.g. the GPL).

Since spec files are specific to RPM packaging, could it be better if
rpm.org set the standard?  It could be a bigger first step toward all
sources of spec files being license compatible.

- Karsten
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