permission to use spec files in other projects

Thorsten Leemhuis fedora at leemhuis.info
Wed Jan 2 16:46:56 UTC 2008


On 02.01.2008 17:28, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
> Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
>> On 02.01.2008 15:34, Rex Dieter wrote:
>>> Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
>>>> 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:
>>> [...]
>>> yada yada, basically says (to my own non-lawyer interpretation) that 
>>> folks can take these fedora-contributed materials and do pretty much 
>>> whatever.
>> The CLA is signed between contributers and the Fedora Project/Red Hat.
>> it has no meaning for a third party.
> Except, the CLA explicitly defines the license for Fedora contributions, 
> for Red Hat and all recipients of Fedora.

How should a 3rd party know that and be sure about it? Is that written
down somewhere?

Cu
knurd




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