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

[Rahul Sundaram]

Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
> 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.

That's exactly what I was confused about. My understanding of the CLA is 
that it applies to all contributions including the spec file and hence 
modifying the CLA is not necessary which I agree would be very painful 
to do.

Rahul