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

Josh Boyer jwboyer at jdub.homelinux.org
Wed Sep 26 18:50:12 UTC 2007


On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 11:18:15 -0700
Karsten Wade <kwade at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 12:46 -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
> > On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 09:24:00 -0700
> > Karsten Wade <kwade at redhat.com> 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.
> > 
> > What?  That's the equivalent of saying that the GNU Make project should
> > set the copyright on all makefiles...
> 
> No, it's not.

How is it not?  rpm.org is the upstream for rpm.  Spec files are used
to build RPMs and are interpreted by the rpm program.  Makefiles are
interpreted by make.

Explain please.

(btw, if you mean rpmdevtools fine.  We can stop talking then, because
that I would agree with.)

josh




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