permission to use spec files in other projects

Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu
Wed Jan 2 14:34:39 UTC 2008


Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> The topic "permission to use Fedora spec files in other projects" is
> still on the EPEL agenda, as that's the area where the topic came up.

> @Board, @FESCo: Any progress on this? 

Pardon my ignorance and/or naivety, but isn't this covered by the CLA,
clause 2:

2. Contributor Grant of License. You hereby grant to Red Hat, Inc., on 
behalf of the Project, and to recipients of software distributed by the 
Project:
    * (a) a perpetual, non-exclusive, worldwide, fully paid-up, royalty
free, irrevocable copyright license to reproduce, prepare derivative 
works of, publicly display, publicly perform, sublicense, and distribute 
your Contribution and such derivative works; and,

yada yada, basically says (to my own non-lawyer interpretation) that 
folks can take these fedora-contributed materials and do pretty much 
whatever.

-- Rex




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