permission to use spec files in other projects

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Wed Jan 2 15:22:16 UTC 2008


Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-01-02 at 20:29 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>> Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
>>>
>>> For the Fedora Board to say "all spec files are under the BSD license,
>>> unless otherwise specified", it would directly conflict with the CLA.
>> Red Hat as the copyright holder
> Red Hat is not the copyright holder - period.

The CLA which all contributors have signed certainly does indicate 
otherwise.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legal/Licenses/CLA

"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, "

Rahul




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