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

[Tom "spot" Callaway]

On Thu, 2007-09-27 at 19:43 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> 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?

Did you agree to put all of your contributed spec files to a specific
license as part of the original EULA? 

No? :) Then you'd need to resign it. It's not a living document, we
cannot simply add things to it ex post facto and have them apply.

~spot