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

Thorsten Leemhuis fedora at leemhuis.info
Wed Sep 26 17:53:20 UTC 2007



On 26.09.2007 16:34, Max Spevack wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Sep 2007, Josh Boyer 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.

Yeah, exactly that.

> Ok.  I've asked Mark Webbink to clarify this for me explicitly, so that 
> we can remove the confusion.  I'll post back here when I hear from him.

Thanks for your work Max.

CU
knurd




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