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

Thorsten Leemhuis fedora at leemhuis.info
Wed Sep 26 17:51:10 UTC 2007


On 26.09.2007 18:24, Karsten Wade wrote:
> 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.

Different projects and contributors might want to put spec files under
different licenses, so I don't like that idea to much.

rpm.org on the other hand could guide everyone and provide a "sane
default" maybe.

CU
knurd




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