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

[Rahul Sundaram]

Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-09-27 at 06:50 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>> May-be it would be helpful, if Fedora's EULA was added a sentence
>> stating a default license. Say, something similar to "unless otherwise
>> stated, Fedora *.specs are considered to be licensed <to be
>> specified>". 
> 
> I don't disagree with this, but amending the EULA is PAINFUL.
> Essentially, we'd have to get everyone to resign it, and that would be
> after Red Hat legal spits it out. We're talking about months of pain, at
> a minimum.

Everyone would have to resign it? Why?

Rahul