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

[Tom "spot" Callaway]

On Thu, 2007-09-27 at 10:33 -0400, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
> 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.

Sorry, EULA is the wrong word. CLA is what I meant to say.

~spot